The Excelsior’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The final question arises, by whose fault had the steamer been brought into that situation? For a long distance away the steamer’s lights had been observed by those on the schooner, and no reasonable excuse is offered for the failure of those on the steamer to discover the lights of the schooner, until the vessels were near together. The lights were there, they were burning, and it is believed that they were not obscured.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brigham v. Luckenbach

2. ““The conclusion that the schooner’s light was neither dim nor obscured must be followed by a finding that it is not chargeable with fault for omission to exhibit the flare-up light. The rule permits the use of a flare-up light, but does not make it obligatory upon the schooner, unless perchance the circumstances were such that prudence would require it.””

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