The Pilot Boy’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 5 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is the duty of every steamer navigating the thoroughfares of commerce to have a trustworthy lookout, besides the helmsman, and in case of collision the absence of such lookout is prima facie evidence that the collision was caused by the fault of the steamer. The Genesee Chief, 12 How. 443 [ 13 L. Ed. 1058 ]. When acting as the officer of the deck, and having charge of the navigation, the master of a steamer is not a proper lookout. The Ottawa, 3 Wall. 269 [ 18 L. Ed. 165 ]. Proper lookouts are persons other than officers of the deck or the helmsman, and they should be stationed on the forward part of the vessel. Elevated positions om a steamer, such as the hurricane deck, are not as favorable situations for the lookout as those on the forward deck near the stem.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Union Transp. Co. v. Kent