The Steamer Webb’s Empirical Analysis
81 U.S. 406 · 1871
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 62 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2003 · most notably Continental Grain Company v. The Fbl-585 (1960), The Oregon (1895)
59 federal appellate · 62 district · 8 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 Willard v. Presbury
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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“—“be almost conclusive evidence of unskillfulness or carelessness in the navigation of the tug. The place where the injury occurred would be considered in connection with the injury itself, and together they would very satisfactorily show a breach of the contract, if no excuse were given. Át least they would be sufficient to cast upon the claimants of the tug the burden of establishing some excuse for the deviation from the usual and proper course.”'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The libel was in rem against the steamer, and the decree cannot be for more than is within the jurisdiction of the court. The steamer was discharged from arrest on stipulation in the sum of $18,000 for value and $250 for costs. The stipulators, to the extent of their stipulation, have been substituted for the steamer, and thus nothing but the $18,000 value and' $250 for costs is within 'the control of the court. To that extent, and no greater, the stipulators have subjected themselves to the judgment of the court, and they cannot be made liable as stipulators beyond it. It was so determined in the case of The Ann Caroline, and we need not repeat what was then said. The decree in this case was largely in excess of the stipulation, and, while it is affirmed upon its merits, it must be modified in regard to the amount of damages recoverable from the stipulators. The decree of the Circuit Court is affirmed with the modification that it be reduced to the sum of $18,000 damages and $250 costs. And it is further ordered that each party pay his own costs in this court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The James McCaudley
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.