The Richmond’s Empirical Analysis
114 F. 208 · 1902
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 24 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 1973 · most notably Silver Line v. United States (1937), West India Oil Co. v. Compania Transatlantica De Barcelona (1924)
6 federal appellate · 24 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 The Oregon · The New York · The Ariadne · The Carroll · The Scotia
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The lesson that steam vessels must stop their engines in the presence of danger, or even of anticipated danger, is a hard one to learn; but the failure to' do so has been the cause of the condemnation of so many vessels that it would seem that these repeated admonitions must ultimately have some effect””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““Art 20. When a steam vessel and sailing vessel are proceeding -in such direct ions as to involve risk of collision, tile steam vessel • shall keep out of the way of the sailing vessel.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. The Columbia · New v. United States““Where, by any of these rules, one of two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course and speed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.