Souther v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 151 · 1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2000
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Foremost Insurance v. Richardson · Richards v. Blake Builders Supply Inc. · Ernest Wilmer Crosson, Iii, and Marie Louise Crosson, His Wife v. Maxwell Vance · Oliver v. Hardesty
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.
“appears to be the key to admiralty jurisdiction when dealing with small pleasure craft.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hogan v. Overman
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.