Feige v. Hurley’s Empirical Analysis
89 F.2d 575 · 1937
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1996 · most notably The M/v 'Tungus' v. Skovgaard E (1959), Hess v. United States (1960)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 The Pennsylvania · Western Fuel Co. v. Garcia · Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc. v. Hicks · The Max Morris · The Ariadne
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute applies to 'any vessel.' Appellee's motor boat was a fifteen-foot Chris Craft with a 70-horsepower motor, capable of going 35 miles per hour. It was within the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Endsley v. Young
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.