The Camanche’s Empirical Analysis
75 U.S. 448 · 1869
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 40 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Sierra Club v. Morton (1972), The "Sabine" (1879)
67 federal appellate · 40 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 Barque Island City · United States v. Columbian Insurance Co. of Alexandria
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he rule is that nothing short of a contract to pay a given sum for the service to be rendered, or a binding engagement to pay at all events, whether successful or unsuccessful in the enterprise will operate as a bar to a meritorious claim for salvage. 3”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No objection has been made to the amount of salvage decreed by the court below, if the libelants are entitled to any. And the objection has been properly abandoned; for the amount, under the circumstances, is certainly not unreasonable. Besides, this court is not in the habit of revising such decrees as to the amount of salvage, unless upon some clear and palpable mistake of gross overallowance of the court below.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Appellate courts are reluctant to disturb award for salvage, on the ground that the subordinate court gave too large a sum to the salvors, unless they are clearly satisfied that the court below m&de an exorbitant estimate of their services.” -”
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.