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92 U.S. 439 · 1875
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 33 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1976 · most notably Grafton v. United States (1907), The Thielbek (1917)
14 federal appellate · 33 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.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““are under obligation to employ a seaworthy steam tug as the accessory motive power to their own ship or craft; and they continue to be responsible for the negligence, omission of duty, or unskillfulness of the master and crew of their own vessel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Cromwell
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.