Robert Vandewater v. Edward Mills’s Empirical Analysis

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64 federal appellate · 69 district · 3 state decisions

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 239 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`stricti juris,' and cannot be extended by construction, analogy, or inference”

   15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The J. E. Rumbell · The Glide

2. ““Under the maritime law of the United States the vessel is bound to theeargo, and the cargo to the vessel, for the performance of a contract of affreightment; but the law creates no lien on a vessel as a security for the performance of a contract to transport cargo until some lawful contract of affreightment is made, and a cargo shipped under it.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pearce v. The Thomas Newton · The Thomas P. Sheldon

3. ““Now, it Is a doctrine not to be found in any treatise on maritime law that every contract by the owner or master of a vessel for the future employment of it hypothecates the vessel for its performance. This lien or-privilege is founded on the rule of maritime law as stated by Oleirac, 597: ‘Le batel est obligée a, la marchandise et la marchandise au batel.’ The-obligation is mutual and reciprocal.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Thomas P. Sheldon · United States v. The S.S. Lucie Schulte