The Sandfield’s Empirical Analysis
92 F. 663 · 1898
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1956
8 federal appellate · 7 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 Silvia · The Carib Prince · Dupont De Nemours Co v. John Vance et al. · Ceballos v. The Warren Adams · American Sugar-Refining Co. v. Sandfield
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The theory upon which it is insisted that the steamship was unseaworthy is thqt the rivet in question was defective. Undoubtedly the rivet was not 3 s perfect as the workman might have made it, and was less capable of resisting the effects of strain and vibration than if it had been as absolutely strong and perfect as the best or average of the' many thousand rivets in the vessel, but we agree with the district judge who decided the case in the court below that ‘any such mere inequality in the strength of the rivets does not amount to unseaworthiness.’ Whether the vessel was unseaworthy or not is to be determined by the test whether she was reasonably fit for the contemplated voyage. Dupont v. Vance, 19 How. 162 , 15 L. Ed. 584 ; Carv. Carr, by Sea, § 18; The Silvia (Oct., 1898) 19 Sup. Ct. 7 . If she was, it matters not that she was not impregnable to the assaults of the elements. If a vessel is reasonably sufficient for the voyage, and is lost by a peril of the sea. her owner is not responsible, as a carrier, for the cargo lost, upon proof that a stouter vessel would have outlived the storm. Ang. Carr. 178. It does not follow, because the rivet loosened in consequence of the extraordinary strain which the vessel encountered, that it was one which would have been pronounced insufficient by men of competent judgment, upon nn examination and full appreciation of its condition at the beginning of the voyage. No expert testified that such a rivet would have been considered unsa”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Ontario
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