Hayford v. Doussony’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.2d 605 · 1929
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1996
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Evansville & Bowling Green Packet Co. v. Chero Cola Bottling Co. · J. C. Penney-Gwinn Corp. v. McArdle
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Pirate Ship was not used, or intended to be used, to carry freight or passengers from one place to another, and was not an instrument of navigation or commerce, and performed no function that might not have been performed as well by a floating barge or platform permanently attached to the land. A result of it not being a vessel or instrument of navigation or commerce engaged in any maritime venture was that a maritime lien did not attach for the compensation for the services rendered by any of the libelants.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A permanent gangway was built ashore, with a house over it extending to the wharf, the gangplank being secured to the hull with seven or eight one-inch pins. Electric wires and water pipes connected the structure with the shore. The structure was intended by its owner to be used, and was used by him, only as a dance platform permanently secured to the dock at all times when so used, and at no time was used or intended to be used for transporting freight or passengers. None of the libelants were employed as mariners or in any way in the capacity of seaman. During the time in 1927 when the Mississippi river was high the Pirate Ship, on the order of the manager of the board of port commissioners, and over the protest of the appellant, was towed to St. Andrews street wharf, and it was towed to the West End after the seizure in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.