Wijsmuller v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
702 F.2d 333 · 1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Dow Chemical Pacific Ltd v. Rascator Maritime Sa a, Air et Chaleur Sa v. Janeway (1985)
11 federal appellate · 5 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 Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · The Blackwall · The "Sabine" · The Clarita and the Clara · The Camanche
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the degree of danger from which the ship was rescued; (b) the post-casualty value of the property saved; (c) the risk incurred in saving the property from impending peril; (d) the promptitude, skill and energy displayed in rendering the service and salving the property; (e) the value of the property employed by the salvors and the danger to which it was exposed; (f) the costs in terms of labor and materials expended by the salvors in rendering the salvage service.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The degree of danger from which the property was rescued; (2) The value of the property saved; (3) The risk incurred by the salvors in securing the property from the impending peril; (4) The promptitude, skill and energy displayed in rendering the service and saving the property; (5) The value of the property employed by the salvors in rendering the service and the danger to which such property was exposed; and (6) The labor expended by the salvors in rendering the salvage service.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to accomplish these purposes courts of admiralty do not view salvage awards therefore “merely as pay, on the principal of quantum meruit, or as a remu neration pro opere et labore, but as a reward given for perilous services, voluntarily rendered, and as an inducement to seamen and others to embark in such undertakings to save life and property.” The Blackwall, 77 U.S. (10 Wall.) 1, 14 , 19 L.Ed. 870 (1870); see [3A M. Norris, Benedict on Admiralty § 235 (6th ed.1980)]. For these reasons courts sitting in admiralty are liberal in fixing awards. The Felix, 62 F. [620, 622 (E.D.Pa.1894).]”
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.