The Victoria’s Empirical Analysis
13 F. 43 · 1882
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1911
2 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether it is usual to close the hatches on the third deck after the day’s work is done, is a disputed question in the case. The preponderance of the evidence is that it is not usual; and see Dwyer v. Steamship Co., 17 Blatchf. 472 , 4 Fed. 493 .””
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.