Fulton v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
122 F. 406 · 1903
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1977
5 federal appellate · 4 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 Elizabeth Jones · Metropolitan S. S. Co. v. Vanderbilt · Handy v. Adams · Wierk v. The Mary Adelaide Randall
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no doubt as to the negligence of the Birdsall. If her crew had been competent, alert and watchful they certainly would have seen the ship’s red light before it was ‘right abreast’ on the ‘starboard beam.’ Danger of collision was then imminent, the time was, probably, less than two minutes, the distance less than four lengths. The evidence that the ship’s lights were burning brightly is overwhelming and if the lookout had been attentive he could have seen the red light twenty minutes prior to the collision and when the ship was miles distant. His failure to do this on a clear night was unquestionably a fault.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunning v. Buckaloo
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.