The Colima’s Empirical Analysis
82 F. 665 · 1897
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1969 · most notably La Bourgogne (1908), Waterman S. S. Corp. v. United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. (1946)
11 federal appellate · 14 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 Butler v. Boston & Savannah Steamship Co. · Craig v. Continental Insurance · O'Brien v. Miller · Alexander Lawrence v. Charles Minturn · The Republic
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The knowledge or privity that excludes the operation of statute, must therefore be in a measure actual, and not merely constructive; that is, actual through the owner’s knowledge, or authorization, or immediate control of the wrongful acts, or conditions, or through some kind of personal participation in them * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“done, occasioned, or incurred without the privity or knowledge of such owner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The knowledge or privity, that excludes the operation of the statute, must therefore be in a measure actual, and not merely constructive; that is, actual through the owner’s knowledge, or authorization, or immediate control of the wrongful acts or conditions, or through some kind of personal participation in them. * * * if * * * the superintendent had been either charged personally with the duty of directing or managing the distribution of this cargo, with reference to the stability of the ship, or had assumed that function, the company would perhaps have been ‘privy’ to any defects in loading, arising from the negligence of workmen under his immediate direction and control, whether he had actual knowledge of their delinquencies or not.””
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.