Squires v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

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3 district ·

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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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We concede that, as urged by counsel for the respondent, the governing rule is modified when the steamer cannot obey it without getting into serious peril, and there is no other way to avoid it but to disregard the rule. The Marguerite, 87 Fed. 953 . But in such case it is obvious that the steamer is bound to resort to all other practicable means before she can be justified in violating the statutory regulation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Devonian