Clarke v. The Rita’s Empirical Analysis
62 F. 761 · 1894
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1956
4 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 The Egypt
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Salvage, in its simple character, is the service which volunteer adventurers spontaneously render to the owners in the recovery of property from loss or damage at sea under the -responsibility of making restitution, and with a lien for their reward.’ Macl. Shipp. 608. ‘Salvage is the compensation due to persons by whose voluntary assistance a ship or its lading has been saved to the owner from impending peril, or recovered after actual loss.’ Ben. Adm. § 300. ‘Salvage consists of an adequate compensation for the actual outlay of labor and expense used in the enterprise, and of the reward, as bounty allowed from motives of public policy as a means of encouraging extraordinary exertions in the saving of life and property in peril at sea.’ The Egypt [D. C.] 17 Fed. 359 . ‘The amount awarded as salvage comprises two elements, viz.: Adequate remuneration, and a bounty given to encourage similar exertions in future cases, the relative amount to depend on the special facts and merits of each case.’ The Sandringham [D. C.] 10 Fed. 556 . ‘The leading consid eraüons to be observed in determining the proportion or amount of an award for salvage services are well defined. * * * We are to consider (1) the degree of danger from which the lives or property are rescued; (2) the value of the property saved; (3) the risk incurred by the salvors; (4) the value of the property employed by the salvors in the wrecking enterprise, ami the danger to which it is exposed; (5) the skill shown in ren”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Catalina · The Craster Hall
How this case has been treated — in progress
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