Chadwick v. Denniston’s Empirical Analysis
33 F. 515 · 1887
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1929
3 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Work v. Leathers · The Titania · Sumner v. Caswell · Embree v. Ellis · Gleadell v. . Thomson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This, warranty extends to latent defects not discoverable by prior examination. Either the ship or the freighter must bear such risks; under the warranty of seaworthiness, the law places this risk upon the ship and her owners.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘'Scawortliiness does not require perfection in machinery more than anything else. Perfection is unattainable. Only a reasonable fitness for the service designed is required.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Indrapura
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.