The Plymouth’s Empirical Analysis
70 U.S. 20 · 1865
Citation profile
199 federal appellate · 102 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 634 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. (1986), Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland (1972)
199 federal appellate · 102 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
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 634 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every species of tort, however occurring, and whether on board a vessel or not, if upon the high seas or navigable waters, is of admiralty cognizance.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This class of cases may well be referred to as illustrating the true meaning of the rule of locality in cases of marine torts, namely, that the wrong and injury complained of must have been committed wholly upon the high seas or navigable waters, or, at least, the substance and consummation of the same. must have taken place upon these waters to be within the admiralty jurisdiction. In other words the cause of damage, in technical language, whatever else attended it, must have been there complete.””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is admitted by all the authorities that the jurisdiction of the admiralty over marine torts depends upon locality — the high seas, or other navigable waters' within admiralty cognizance; and, being so dependent upon locality,. the jurisdiction is limited to the sea or n’avigable waters not extending beyond high-water mark.””
7 later decisions 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.