Work v. Leathers’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 379 · 1878
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 58 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Commercial Molasses Corp. v. New York Tank Barge Corp. (1941), The Caledonia (1895)
62 federal appellate · 58 district · 10 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 Gaussen v. United States · Putnam v. Wood · M'Lellan v. Dalton · Wyman v. President of Hallowell & Augusta Bank
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘Where the owner of a vessel charters her, or offers her for freight, he is bound to see that she is seaworthy and suitable for the service in which she is to be employed. If there- be defects known, or not known, he is not excused. He is obliged to keep her in proper repair, unless prevented by perils of the sea or unavoidable accident. Such is the implied contract where the contrary does not appear. * * * The owner is liable for breach of his contract.””
10 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.