Saylor v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
77 F. 476 · 1896
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably Ellis v. United States (1907), Washingtonsouthern Nav Co v. Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co (1924)
17 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 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 Minna · The Alabama · Huismann v. The Pioneer · McNamara v. The Atlantic · The Alabama
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t seems a stretch of the imagination to class the deck hands of a mud dredge in the quiet waters of a Potomac creek with the bold and skillful mariners who breast the angry waves of the Atlantic; but such and so far-reaching are the principles which underlie the jurisdiction of the courts of admiralty that they adapt themselves to all the new kinds of property and new sets of operatives and new conditions which are brought into existence in the progress of the world.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Sec. 918. Practice in several courts to be regulated by their own rule. The several Circuit' and District Courts may. from time to time, and in any manner not inconsistent with any law of the United States, or with any riile prescribed by the Supreme Court under the preceding section, make rules and orders directing the returning of writs and processes, the filing of pleadings, the taking of rules, the entering and making up of judgments by default, and other matters in vacation, and otherwise regulate their own-practice as may be necessary or convenient for the advancement of justice and the prevention of delays in proceedings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Hence it is that in all times and in all countries those who are employed upon .a vessel in any capacity, however humble, and whose labor contributes in any degree, however slight to the accomplishment of the main object in which the vessel is engaged, are clothed by the law with the legal rights of mariners, ‘no matter what may be their sex, character, station, or profession.’ ””
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.