H. E. Willard’s Empirical Analysis
52 F. 387 · 1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1949
2 federal appellate · 8 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 The Lottawanna · Ex parte McNiel · People's Ferry Co. v. Beers · The Corsair · The General Smith
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““AU domestic vessels shall be subject to a lien to any part owner or other person to secure the payment of debts contracted and advances made for labor and materials necessary for their repair, provisions, stores, and other supplies necessary for their employment, and for the use of a wharf, dry dock, or marine railway, provided, that such lien shall in no event continue for a longer period than two years from the time when the debt was contracted or advances made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When a right maritime in its nature has been created by the local law, the admiralty courts of the United States may doubtless enforce that rigid: according to their own' rules of procedure;” citing The Corsair, supra, and other cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.