The Perseverance’s Empirical Analysis
63 F.2d 788 · 1933
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 1981 · most notably Kinsman Transit Company Steamer Macgilvray Shiras Steamer Michael Tewksbury (1964), P. Dougherty Co. v. United States (1953)
24 federal appellate · 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 The Socony No. 19
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to the ship, we are disposed to exonerate her, though she was at fault as we have said. We accept the common form of statement that the fault must be a `cause,' not a `condition,' of the collision.”
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.