The Nacoochee’s Empirical Analysis
137 U.S. 330 · 1890
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 65 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 226 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1986 · most notably The Umbria (1897), Belden v. Chase (1893)
101 federal appellate · 65 district · 5 state decisions
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 Pennsylvania · The "Colorado" · The Elizabeth Jones · The " Francis Wright"
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 226 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every vessel shall, in a fog, mist, falling snow, or heavy rainstorms, go at a moderate speed, having careful regard to the existing circumstances and conditions. “A steam vessel hearing, apparently forward of her beam, the fog signal of a vessel the position of which is not ascertained shall, so far as the circumstances of the case admit, stop her engines, and then navigate with caution until danger of collision is over.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Columbia · The Bailey Gatzert“'rate of speed as would enable [the vessel] to come to a standstill, by reversing her engines at full speed, before she could collide with a vessel which she should see through the fog.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““She was bound, therefore, to observe unusual caution, and to maintain only such a rate of speed as would enable her to come to a standstill, by reversing her engines at full speed, before she should collide with a vessel which she should see through the fog.””
3 later decisions 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.