Disbrow v. The Walsh Bros.’s Empirical Analysis
36 F. 607 · 1888
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1995 · most notably McDermott International, Inc. v. Wilander (1991), Norton v. Warner Co. (1944)
7 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 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 Stone v. State of South Carolina · The Minna · Walker v. City of New Orleans · Moore v. Neafie
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They were legally required to remain and finish the unloading. The chief part of their work was loading and unloading the cargo'. To quit work as they did was to subject the barge to liability of special expenses, or loss of two days’ time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The J. P. Schuh
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.