Hall v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is not at all necessary to consider here the question whether a eourt of admiralty proceeds against the owner of a vessel upon distinct grounds of its own growing out of the peculiar relations that exist as between the owner and those éngaged about navigating a vessel of commerce, in cases like this, or only enforces the ordinary common-law principles of master and servant; for it is conceded by the learned counsel that the defendant is liable on the common-law principle, and to that extent certainly; and, I find no difficulty in adjudging that this case falls clearly within that principle. * * * But, after all, this case falls, in my judgment, within the Tennessee rule of liability. * * * »”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cain v. Alpha S. S. Corp.