The Blackwall’s Empirical Analysis
77 U.S. 1 · 1869
Citation profile
107 federal appellate · 101 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 380 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Robert Workman v. Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York a (1900), The "Sabine" (1879)
107 federal appellate · 101 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 Barque Island City · The Propeller Commerce
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 380 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1.) The labor expended by the salvors in rendering the salvage service. (2.) The promptitude, skill, and energy displayed in rendering the service and saving the property. (3.) The value of the property employed by the salvors in rendering the service, and the danger to which such property was exposed. (4.) The risk incurred by the salvors in securing the property from the impending peril. (5.) The value of the property saved. (6.) The degree of danger from which the property was rescued.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Salvage Is tlie compensation allowed to persons by wliose assistance a ship or her cargo lias been saved in whole or in part from impending peril on the sea, or in recovering such property from actual loss, as in case of shipwrecks, derelicts, or recapture.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Steam vessels are always considered as entitled to a liberal reward, not only because the service is usually rendered by a costly instrumentality, but because the service is in general rendered with greater promptitude and is of a more effectual character.””
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.