Gilchrist v. Godman’s Empirical Analysis
79 F. 970 · 1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 1913
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be observed that the relation of the libelants to the vessel in distress was not that of salvors at large. They did not offer their help or impose their services. * * * Their relation was not that of men coming at a venture to a vessel in distress but of regular wreckers and tug men, who "vero employed at a customary compensation to give assistance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Silver Star
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.