The Erinagh’s Empirical Analysis
7 F. 231 · 1881
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1976
3 federal appellate · 8 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 Pliny Cutler v. William a Rae · Covert v. The British Brig Wexford
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever ma.v be the rule upon the facts -of those cases where the vessel was laid up undergoing repairs, dismantled, or not engaged in any voyage, or earning freight, 1 have no hesitation in holding that it is in accordance with tile present view of wliat constitutes a maritime contract that the services of a watchman on board a vessel coming into port utterly disabled by the sickness of her crew, and having on board a cargo to deliver in order to earn her freight, is a maritime service, for which there is a maritime lien on the ship.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.