La Bourgogne’s Empirical Analysis
139 F. 433 · 1905
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1966
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 " Scotland" · The Chattahoochee · The Main v. Williams · International Nav. Co. v. Lindstrom · Atlas S. S. Co. v. La Campagnie Generale Transatlantique
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon the proof as it stands we cannot find that the petitioner’s officers knowingly tolerated or encouraged the running of its steamers at excessive speed in fogs, or were negligent in failing to enforce the rules; certainly they used due diligence in securing officers of experience and ability. We concur in the conclusion that the disaster was done, occasioned or incurred without the privity or knowledge of the owners.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. La Bourgogne
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.