The Waalhaven’s Empirical Analysis
36 F.2d 706 · 1929
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1983
13 federal appellate · 1 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 Steamship Willdomino v. Citro Chemical Co. · Republic of France v. French Overseas Corporation the Malcolm Baxter Jr · The Caledonier
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“danger to which she [the vessel] had no right to expose the shippers”
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.