The Colombo’s Empirical Analysis
42 F.2d 211 · 1930
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1978
4 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 The J. Rich Steers · United States v. The Bombay · United States v. The Anjer Head · Jaycox v. United States · Warner-Quinlan Co. v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At one time it was thought that section 450 [33 U.S.C.A.], which makes any vessel liable when `used or employed' in such work, was limited to those whose owners or masters had authorized the wrongful act (The Anjer Head (D.C.) 46 F. 664 ), but this was soon overruled (The Bombay (D.C.) 46 F. 665 ), and we have already once approved the latter construction (The J. Rich Steers (C.C.A. [2 Cir.]) 228 F. 319, 322 ). The statute speaks with the maritime law in mind, under which the ship is so often regarded as an offender. This is indeed a fiction, but its roots go back far into the law, and the resulting liability is like many others imposed upon an individual, regardless of his personal fault. Having committed his ship to the seas, an owner takes the risk of much which he cannot easily control. As between him and the injured party, it is thought desirable to throw the loss where prevention would have been at least possible.”
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.