The Phoenicia’s Empirical Analysis
90 F. 116 · 1898
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1962
3 federal appellate · 5 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 Edwin Morrison Bradley Fertilizer Co v. Lavender · Baer v. Moran Bros. · Carter v. The Mascotte · Carter v. The Mascotte
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not think that a shipowner exercises due diligence, within the meaning of the act, by merely furnishing proper structure and equipment; for the diligence required is diligence to make the ship in all respects seaworthy, and that, in our judgment, means due diligence on the part of all the owners’ servants in the use of the equipment before the commencement of the voyage and until it is actually commenced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Ninfa
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.