The Whitlieburn’s Empirical Analysis
89 F. 526 · 1898
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1935
3 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 Blease v. Garlington · The Colima · Sumner v. Caswell · Bowring v. Thebaud · Botany Worsted Mills v. Knott
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie loading, stowing and ballasting of a light cargo are all so interdependent on one another, as affecting the seaworthiness of the ship, that they all fall under the first section of the act, which expressly confirms the owner’s previous responsibility; and to cases which fall under the specific provisions of the first section, the general exemptions of the third section are not applicable. Worsted Mills v. Knott, 76 Fed. 582 , 584; The Colima, 82 Fed. 665 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Frey
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.