The Plymouth Rock’s Empirical Analysis
9 F. 413 · 1881
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2014
7 federal appellate · 13 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 · McConnochie v. Kerr · Brooks v. Steamer Adirondack · Atlas Steam-Ship Co. v. Steam-Ship Colon · The Steamer Leipsic
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is sufficient that at the time the assistance is rendered the ship has encountered any danger or misfortune which might possibly expose her to destruction if the service were not rendered.... A situation of actual apprehension, though not of actual danger, is sufficient.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Aid rendered in the propulsion of vessels, irrespective of any circumstances of peril; the employment of one vessel to expedite the voyage of another ves sel when nothing more is required than the acceleration of her progress. When used in contradistinction to salvage service, it is confined to vessels not in distress.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A situation of actual apprehension, though not of actual danger, is sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.