The Cygnus’s Empirical Analysis
142 F. 85 · 1905
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1940
6 federal appellate · 3 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 New York · The Delaware · The Vlbert Dumois · The Britannia the Beaconsfield the Britannia v. Cleugh Same · Hutchinson v. The Northfield
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““steamer will not be held in fault for maintaining her course and speed, so long as it is possible for the other to avoid her by porting, at least in the absence of some distinct indication that she is about to fail in her duty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Binghamton
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.