Hunley’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2017
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · Blue Shield of Va. v. McCready
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.
“neither normal nor reasonably foreseeable”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Exxon Company Exxon Shipping Company, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Third-Party v. Sofec, Inc., Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee. Pacific Resources, Inc. Hawaiian Independent Refinery, Inc. Pri Marine, Inc. Pri International, Inc., Defendants-Cross-Claimants-Third-Party v. Griffin Woodhouse, Griffin Woodhouse, Inc., Third-Party Bridon Fibres and Plastics, Ltd., Defendant-Third-Party · Farr v. NC Machinery Co.“in a proceeding in rem the offending thing can[not] be made to answer for damages other than those actually received.... In the American admiralty a tort creates a maritime lien or privilege, a jus in re. This lien or privilege, however, is only as security for actual damages for the wrong done, for which the ship herself is bound to make compensation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'only in connection with a maritime lien.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.