The Thomas P. Sheldon’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. ““The delay in procuring other vessels, caused by negotiations and efforts to induce the libelee to perform its legal obligation, was, under the circumstances, both reasonable and prudent. * * * The rule of Warren v. Stoddart, 105 U. S. 230 , 26 L. Ed. 1117 , requires reasonable conduct on the part of one whose legal rights have been violated; but it should not be invoked by a defendant as a basis for critical examination of the conduct of the injured party, or merely for the purpose of showing that the injured person might have taken steps which were wiser or more advantageous to the defendant. Reasonably prudent action is required; not that action which the defendant', upon afterthought, may be able to show would have been more advantageous to him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. J. J. Moore & Co. v. Cornwall