Williams’s Empirical Analysis
126 F. 871 · 1903
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1955
6 federal appellate · 1 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 "Margaret." · The Quickstep · Clark v. Hancock · William Cushing v. The Owners of the Ship John Fraser · The Cayuga
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.
““Before those on No. 9 left her, the hawsers between the dumpers were cut by the men on No. 9 under orders from the master of the tug.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams
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.