The Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
125 F. 712 · 1903
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 1977
13 federal appellate · 8 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 New York · The Delaware · The Vlbert Dumois · The Britannia the Beaconsfield the Britannia v. Cleugh Same · Hutchinson v. The Northfield
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The preferred steamer will not be held in fault for maintaining her course and speed as long as it is possible for the other to avoid her by porting, at least in the absence of some distinct indication that she is about to fail in her duty. If t-lie master of the preferred steamer were at liberty to speculate upon the possibility or even the probability of the approaching steamer failing to do her duty and keep out of his way, the Certainty that the former will hold his course, upon which the latter has a right to rely, and which it is the very object of the rule to insure, would give place to doubts on the part of the master of the obligated steamer as to whether he would do so or not and produce a timidity and feebleness on the part of both, which would: bring about more collisions than it would prevent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Cygnus““This court has repeatedly held, following the Supreme Court, that a vessel which is primarily in fault for a collision cannot shift its consequences in part upon the other vessel without clear proof of the contributing negligence or fault of the latter. Her own negligence sufficiently accounts for the disaster.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In obeying and construing these rules, due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary In order to avoid immediate danger.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.