The Longfellow’s Empirical Analysis
104 F. 360 · 1900
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2009
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Butler v. Boston & Savannah Steamship Co. · Place v. Norwich & New York Transportation Co. · Norwich Company v. Wright · Cowell v. Springs Co. · Paper-Bag Cases Paper-Bag Machine Company v. Nixon
Most-quoted passages
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“The faults which the trial judge found were clearly faults in the navigation of the Longfellow, and cannot be imputed to her owners, as having occurred through their “privity or knowledge.” If we assume that there was no positive prearrangement between the officers of the Longfellow and the Hercules Carrol as would secure the best cooperative results, it was the fault of those navigating those boats, and not of the owners of the Longfellow.... The navigation of the Longfellow was under the sole control and direction of her pilot, who was a licensed pilot of unquestionable reputation and skill. It was for him to direct how the Hercules Carrol should assist, and the latter was subject to his orders and direction so far as the actual navigation of the Longfellow was affected.... The navigation of the towboat when lashed alongside of the Longfellow was necessarily to be governed by the navigation of the latter, and it was for the pilot to give such special orders as his judgment and the circumstances dictated. Neither was it the personal fault of the owners that the navigators of the Longfellow did not stop and back [up] when smoke first obscured her pilot’s view. If there was fault, it was a fault of those controlling her navigation, and was without the knowledge or privity of the owners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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