San Rafael Compania Naviera, S.A. v. American Smelting & Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
327 F.2d 581 · 1964
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably United States v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1981), Polar Shipping Limited v. Oriental Shipping Corporation (1982)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 National Equipment Rental, Ltd. v. Szukhent · Mississippi Pub Corporation v. Murphree · Wuchter v. Pizzutti · Miner v. Atlass · Kingston Dry Dock Co. v. Lake Champlain Transp. Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Foreign attachment ... is 'old process' in admiralty and is recognized in Admiralty Rule 2.”
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.