Sells’s Empirical Analysis
89 F.2d 631 · 1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2013
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Louisiana · Exner v. Sherman Power Const. Co. · Weeks v. Wilson Transit Co. · Rice v. Brooklyn Ash Removal Co. · The Lackawanna
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no more than that the vessel must show herself free from 'fault' in the ordinary sense”
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.