Carrington v. The Brig Ann C. Pratt’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 63 · 1855
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1933 · most notably Keystone Driller Co. v. General Excavator Co. (1933), Ralli v. Troop (1895)
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
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 Peyroux v. Howard · The Ship Virgin v. Adam Vyfhius · Ramsay v. Allegre · Brown v. Gilman · Commonwealth v. Churchill
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, it is well settled that the lien implied by the general admiralty law may be waived by the express contract of the parties or by necessary implication, and the implication arises in all cases where the express contract is inconsistent with an intention to rely upon the lien.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. The Underwriter
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.