The Yungay’s Empirical Analysis
58 F.2d 352 · 1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1969
5 federal appellate · 1 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 Luckenbach v. W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining Co. · The Southwark · Providence Co v. Hill Manuf'G · La Bourgogne · Wesley Richardson v. Judson Harmon
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.
“But instances of nondelegable duties on the part of the owner * * * are rarely found in limitation of liability issues, and the reason is plain. * * * The act would fail of its purpose, the encouragement of the business of navigation, if full liability should be visited upon owners through the creation and imposition on them of nondelegable duties.”
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.