Millard v. The Schiedam’s Empirical Analysis
48 F. 923 · 1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1919
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Chapman v. The Engines of The Greenpoint
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While a sum agreed on in advance and in the presence o£ danger may therefore limit the salvor, it has little or no binding effect upon the other party. A11 courts of admiralty freely examine into the circumstances in the interest of the latter, and award no more than a reasonable sum, without regard to the amount agreed on.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dilkes v. Jansen
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.