In re W. E. Hedger Co.’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.2d 982 · 1932
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1972
5 federal appellate · 3 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 Sacramento Nav Co v. Salz · Place v. Norwich & New York Transportation Co. · The Main v. Williams · Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Co. v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal · Short v. The Columbia
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.
““ * * * In the case of a flotilla consisting of tug and tow, the vessel required to be surrendered will, in some circumstances, be only the tug, as in Liverpool, etc., Nav. Co. v. Brooklyn Eastern Dist. Terminal, 251 U.S. 48 , 40 S.Ct. 66 , 64 L.Ed. 130 , while in other circumstances it will be the whole flotilla. The Columbia, 73 F. 226 (C.C.A.9), approved in Sacramento Nav. Co. v. Salz, 273 U.S. 326, 332 , 47 S.Ct. 368 , 71 L.Ed. 663 .”,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The petitioner in a limitation proceeding has the burden of proving compliance with the conditions which entitle him to limit liability. The Rambler, 290 F. 791, 792 (C.C.A.2). He must show the value of his interest in the vessel and her pending freight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The privilege of limiting liability is granted the owner of an offending vessel on condition that he surrender the value of his interest in 'such vessel, and her freight the pending.'”
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.