Duff v. Merritt’s Empirical Analysis
86 F. 675 · 1898
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2015
11 federal appellate · 7 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 Camanche · William Mason v. Blaireau · The Barque Island City · The Sybil · The Sandringham
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Regard is always paid to the value of the property saved, and an award will not be made ol such an amount as to deprive its owners of the benefit of the service, with the view of recouping to salvors their losses. It is one of the risks they run that they may not be indemnified for their sacrifices. It is said that the court of admiralty has hardly ever, and then only in the case of a derelict, awarded as salvage more than half the value of the property saved.’ * * * That the compensation of salvors Is subject to reduction, even below a fair quantum meruit, when otherwise nothing would be left for the owner, is a proposition approved in the opinions of the courts in the following cases, although In none of them are the facts exactly like those in the case at bar.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Alcazar
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.