Pittmans v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 9 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is well known I hat 1lie state lien laws were passed after the decision in the case of The General Smith, which declared that the existence of liens-in favor of material men in the home port of a vessel depended on tlie local law. The case ivas generally regarded, however (and, it would seem from the case of Tlie Lottawaima, justly), as deciding that by the general maritime law, as received in the United States, demands of that kind were not attended by any ben on the vessel. The statutes in question were passed to remedy this defect, and to give to domestic material men the same protection which the maritime law afforded to foreign material men. There is no reason to suppose that they were intended to do more, or that it was sought to withdraw the demands of domestic material men from the operation of the general rulos and principles by which maritime liens are governed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. De Lano v. The Alvira