Murphy v. Suliote’s Empirical Analysis
5 F. 99 · 1880
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 22 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 1929 · most notably The Sandringham (1882), Hall v. The Bay of Naples (1891)
9 federal appellate · 22 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 Post v. Jones · Corwin v. Barge Jonathan Chase
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The amount of salvage that ought to be allowed for the services performed depends on several considerations, as: First, the extent and danger of the services; secondly, the risk to which the vessels and other property employed in the service were exposed; thirdly, the value of the property saved, and the risk of destruction by which it was imperiled.””
12 later decisions 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.