The Alpena’s Empirical Analysis
8 F. 280 · 1881
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1981
5 federal appellate · 6 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Must be treated as a separate venture, involving its own particular hazards, losses, and earnings; and that, when each such voyage is ended, it is for the owner to decide whether the losses have been such as to make it expedient for him to invoke the protection given by this act of congress. * * * The language as well as the evident reason of the statute shows that this proceeding can only be had for the purpose of apportioning the owner’s interest between several persons who have suffered losses on the same voyage. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gokey v. Fort
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.