The Clymene’s Empirical Analysis
9 F. 164 · 1881
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1994
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same · Henderson v. Mayor of the City of New York Commissioners of Immigration v. North German Lloyd · Gilman v. Philadelphia · George Smith v. William Turner Health-Commissioner of the Port of New York James Norris
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.
““the libellant was a duly licensed pilot, authorized to do what he undertook; and that any law of Pennsylvania designed to interfere with him in this respect, is inoperative and void. It also follows that the provision of the Delaware statute, which contemplates an exclusive jurisdiction over the subject on waters within her limits ... is equally inoperative and void” ( 9 F. at p. 168 ) (emphasis supplied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The relations of the states as members of the general government — the fact that they are not separate independencies, and that the navigable waters within their respective limits are subject to common use — must be constantly kept in view. The commerce on the Delaware bay and river, no matter where from or where bound, does not belong to Pennsylvania. That she and her citizens derive a larger share of benefit from it than her neighbors is her good fortune, but it confers no right on her to say who shall enter a port within her limits, or what pilot shall be employed. The port itself, constituted of the public waters of the nation, is not liers; and it is but by the grace of the general government that she is allowed any independent voice respecting it. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Alcalde
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.