Maxwell v. Olsen’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2012
9 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · McAllister v. United States · Kermarec v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique · In Re Disbarment of Isserman · Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district courts shall have original jurisdiction, exclusive of the courts of the States, of: (1) Any civil case of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases all other remedies to which they are otherwise entitled.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he district courts * * * shall also have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction * * * saving to suitors, ■ in all cases the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it * * *. 7”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A state court under the ‘saving to suitors’ clause of the Judicial Act of 1789, 4 4 4 must apply the doctrine of comparative, rather than contributory negligence.”
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.