De Lovio v. Boit’s Empirical Analysis
1815
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Victory Carriers, Inc. v. Law (1971), Atlantic Mutual Insurance v. Balfour Maclaine International Ltd. (1992)
7 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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Most-quoted passages
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“all contracts ... which relate to the navigation, business, or commerce of the sea,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“On the other hand, in Sir Henry Constable's Case, 5 Coke, 106, etc., it was expressly adjudged, as has been already stated, that the soil, on which the sea ebbs and flows, may be parcel of a manor, and that, when the sea flows and has plenitudinem maris, the admiral shall have jurisdiction of every thing done on the water, between the high and low water mark, by the ordinary and natural course of the sea; and yet, when the sea ebbs, the land may belong to a subject, and every thing done on the land, when the sea is ebbed, shall be tried at common law, for it is then parcel of the country, and infra corpus comitatus; and so, between the high and low water mark, the common law and the admiralty have divisum imperium ... Until some strong reason can be assigned for a distinction, it would seem more conformable to law and nature to hold, that the bodies of counties, bounding on navigable waters, are limited at all times by the line of the sea tide; and this is the doctrine asserted by the admiralty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all those causes, which originally and inherently belonged to the admiralty” (emphases added)). The likely reason for this ambiguity is that the distinction between a”
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.