Talbert v. Elphicke’s Empirical Analysis
73 F. 859 · 1896
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2013
6 federal appellate · 4 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 William Mason v. Blaireau · Samuel Hobart v. Andrew Drogan · O'Brien v. The Umattilla · The C. P. Minch · Honduras & C. A. S. S. Co. v. $9,500 in Silver Specie
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In every ease where compensation in the nature of salvage has been awarded to seamen, the voyage has terminated by the shipwreck of the vessel, which has either gone to the bottom or left her bones oil the shore, or she has been’ abandoned by ail, or by all except the salvors, under circumstances which show conclusively that the abandonment was absolute, without hope or expectation of recovery, or the seaman lias been by the master unmistakably discharged from the service of the shipowner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The C. F. Bielman
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.