Steamship Company v. Portwardens’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 31 · 1867
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Simpson v. Shepard (1913), Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. United States (1932)
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 11 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pilotage is a compensation for services performed, half-pilotage is compensation for services which the pilot has put himself in readiness to perform by labor, risk, and costs and which he has actually offered to perform. But in the case before us there were no services and no offer to perform any.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage.”
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.