The Itasca’s Empirical Analysis
117 F. 885 · 1901
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1974
6 federal appellate · 3 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A dredge anchored at night in a navigable channel of a river was sunk in collision with a passing steamer. Owing to her light draught, the dredge might readily and with little inconvenience have anchored further inshore in a place of safety, and she therefore violated the statute (Act March 3, 1899, 30 Stat. 1152 , c. 425 [U. S.' Oomp. St. 1901, p. 3543]) in taking the more exposed position. On the other hand, her lights were burning, and were seen by the steamer, the night was calm and bright', and there was ample room for the steamer to have passed at a safe distance. Held, that both vessels were in fault, and the damage should be divided.””
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.