The West Arrow’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.2d 853 · 1936
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably In re Oil Spill by the Amoco Cadiz off the Coast of France on March 16, 1978 (1992), Shaw, Savill, Albion & Co. v. The Fredericksburg (1951)
16 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Southwark · The Baltimore · Die Deutsche Bank Filiale Nurnberg v. Humphrey · May v. Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt Aktiengesellschaft · The Wildcroft
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neglecting precautions, which might have been taken if the instructions of the manufacturer had been carried out, makes the ship responsible for the resulting damage without clearer proof than was presented here that the accident was caused by a failure of performance which sprang from a latent defect.”
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.