United States v. Isthmian Steamship Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Robinson (1960), Leather's Best, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross v. S.S. Mormaclynx, Defendants-Appellants-Appellees (1971)
74 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedIsthmian Steamship Company, Libelant-Appellee v. United States (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1503 · 28 U.S.C. § 2073 · 28 U.S.C. § 331
Relies on United States v. Munsey Trust Co. · Abel v. United States · Luckenbach v. W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining Co. · Isbrandtsen Co. v. Johnson · Merchants Heat & Light Co. v. J. B. Clow & Sons
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever a cross-libel is filed upon any counterclaim arising out of the same contract or cause of action for which the original libel was filed, and the respondent or claimant in the original suit shall have given security to respond in damages, the respondent in the cross-libel shall give security in the usual amount and form to respond in damages to the claims set forth in said cross-libel, unless the court for cause shown, shall otherwise direct; $ * * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e must ascertain whether admiralty practice permits private parties to defend by setting up claims arising out of separate and unrelated transactions between the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think that if the law is to change it should be by rulemaking or legislation and not by decision.” 4”
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.