The Dirigo First’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2004
3 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 O'Hara Vessels, Inc. v. Hassett · The Francis J. O'Hara, Jr.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If no fish is caught or for some other reason there are no proceeds from a fish auction, the voyage is called 'a broker'. * * * the members of the crew go unpaid, unless the owner or master chooses to make a gratuitous distribution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Comm'r
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.