The Alert’s Empirical Analysis
40 F. 836 · 1889
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1957
6 federal appellate · 8 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 Chicago City v. Robbins · Village of Port Jervis v. . First National B'k. · The Hudson · Konitzky v. . Meyer · Post v. City of Lincoln
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.
“* * * there is no lack of power in the court to regulate its procedure so as to promote speedy and substantial justice. Both the statutes and the admiralty court rules, in cases not provided for, authorize the court `to regulate its practice as is fit and necessary for the advancement of justice.' * * * This authority is a power held in trust for the benefit of litigants, and it is the duty of the court to exercise it in proper cases, by adapting its procedure to the practical needs of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The case of The Hudson, D.C., [15 F. 175] * * * and the fifty-ninth rule in admiralty, though not literally applicable, furnish also an analogy for this order. A similar practice has been occasionally followed, where necessary, in cases not literally within the rule. The City of Lincoln, D.C., 25 F. 835; The John Cottrell, D.C., 34 F. 907; The Doris Eckhoff, D.C., 32 F. 555; Joice v. Canal-Boats, D.C., 25 F. 553.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The Alert was a chartered ship, and, being sued * * * for negligent damage to cargo, by the breaking of her tackle while discharging, under the charterers, her owners in their answer say that the tackle was furnished either by the shipper or by the charterers, under a special agreement between them, and not by the ship, and they now move that the charterers be made codefendants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.