Electro-Dynamic Co. v. The Electron’s Empirical Analysis
74 F. 689 · 1896
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2008
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
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 The Lottawanna · The Guiding Star · Pittman v. The Samuel Marshall · Electrical Accumulator Co. v. Brush Electric Co. · Electro-Dynamic Co. v. The Electron
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If full force is given to the last clause of the sentence, it is an implication that no proceeding in rem can bo had against domestic ships, if no credit had been given to the vessel, and that such credit necessarily preceded any lien which could be recognized by an admiralty court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘•Of course, this modification of the rule cannot avail where no lien exists; but where one does exist, no matter by what law, it removes all obstacles to a proceeding iu rein, if credit is given to the vessel.””
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.