The Austria’s Empirical Analysis
14 F. 298 · 1882
Citation profile
4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1949
4 district · 1 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Inevitable accident is where a vessel is pursuing a lawful avocation in a lawful manner, using the proper precautions against danger, and an accident occurs. The highest degree of caution that can be nsed is not required. It is enough that it is reasonable under the circumstances, such as is usual in similar cases, and has been found by long experience to be suiliciont to answer tlie end in view,—the safety of life and property.” The Grace Girdler, 7 Wall. 196 , 203.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neel v. Blythe
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.