The D. B. Steelman’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 7 district ·

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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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If, however, the taking o£ the mortgage be attended by acts inconsistent with the lien, or prejudicial to other maritime creditors (for instance, if the credit given by it be so long as to make the claim it is intended to secure stale, iu the sense of the maritime law), or if the execution of the mortgage be in manner such as to make it conflict with the rights of maritime creditors whose claims are of equal dignity with that secured by the mortgage, then it would be inequitable to allow to tbe mortgagee tbe benefit of two remedies-against tbe ship, and bis taking the mortgage would be held as waiving the maritime ben.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Appeal of Milwaukee Dry Dock Co.

2. ““It is not tbe case of a voluntary abandonment of tbe remedy in admiralty for a resort to tbe inconsistent and different remedy of attachment and personal judgment in- a state court. Nor, in this case, has there been a sleeping by tbe claimant upon his mortgage so long as to allow bis claim to grow stale, to tbe prejudice of tbe rights of maritime lien creditors whose claims are fresh.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Appeal of Milwaukee Dry Dock Co.