The Portsmouth’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 682 · 1869
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017
3 federal appellate · 6 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ A loss by a jettison occasioned by a peril of the sea is, in ordinary eases, a loss by perils of the sea. But it is well settled that if a jettison of a cargo, or a part-of it, is rendered necessary by any fault or breach of contract of the master or owners of the vessel, the jettison must be attributed to that fault or breach of contract, rather than to the sea peril, though that may also be present, and enter into the case. This is a principle alike applicable to the exceptions in bills of lading and in policies of insurance. Though the peril of the sea may be nearer m time to the disaster, the efficient cause, without which the peril would not have been incurred, is regarded as the proximate cause of the loss. ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The G. R. Booth · The Ontario
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.