Merritt v. Morse’s Empirical Analysis
67 F. 358 · 1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1918
1 federal appellate · 3 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 Merritt v. The Wandrahm
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a person, whose reliction to the vessel Is unknown, lmt who is not the apparent agent of the owners, who are unknown, hut who can readily he ascertained, makes a contract for something to be (lone upon the vessel, in the line of his known business as a mechanic, the co-contracting party is put upon Inquiry to ascertain the powers which the stranger possesses. If no such inquiry is made, and nothing is said about the credit of the vessel, the inference is that the material man was satisfied with the security of the sole debtor, and the mere subsequent declaration of the libellant that he furnished the materials upon the credit of the vessel will not vary the conclusion which is to be drawn from his conduct when the contract was made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Paul L. Bleakley
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.