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75 U.S. 377 · 1869
Citation profile
145 federal appellate · 70 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 359 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society (1975), Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (2001)
145 federal appellate · 70 district · 10 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.
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 359 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Restitutio in integrum’ is tiie leading maxim in such cases, and, where repairs are practicable, the general rule followed by the admiralty courts ⅛ such cases is that the damages assessed against the respondent shall be sufficient to restore the injured vessel to the condition in which she was at the time the collision occurred.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Restitutio in integrum’ is the leading maxim in such cases, and where repairs are practicable the general rule followed by the admiralty courts in such cases is that the damages assessed against the respondent shall be sufli-eient to restore the injured vessel to the condition in which she was at the time the collision occurred; and in respect to the materials for the repairs the rule is that there shall not, as in insurance cases, be any deduction for the new materials furnished in the place of the old, because the claim of the injured party arises by reason of the wrongful act of the party by whom the damage was occasioned, and the measure of the indemnification is not limited by any contract, but is coextensive, with the amount of the damage.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Restitution or compensation is the rule in all cases where repairs are practicable, but. if the vessel of the libelants is totally lost, the rule of damage is the market value of the vessel (if the vessel is of a class which has such value) at the time of her destruction.””
3 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.