Lyman v. The H. E. Willard’s Empirical Analysis
53 F. 599 · 1891
Citation profile
6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1919
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 Orleans Henry Forsyth v. Thomas Phoebus · Eber Ward Survivor Owner of the Steamboat Detroit v. Charles Thompson · Bryan Roach v. William Chapman · The Steamer St. Lawrence · H. E. Willard
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That State Legislatures cannot restrict or extend the admiralty jurisdiction exclusively vested in the federal courts has been often decided, and is conclusively settled. It follows, necessarily, that a lien given by a state statute is not a test of jurisdiction. If it were, a State Legislature might, at pleasure, modify the jurisdiction of courts of admiralty by creating or abrogating liens not given by the maritime law. The distinction between cases in which the cause of action is itself within the admiralty jurisdiction and cases in which the admiralty, independently of the local law, has no jurisdiction, must not be forgotten or neglected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The James T. Furber““All 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 majoritye.g. The James T. Furber
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.