The Blue Jacket’s Empirical Analysis
144 U.S. 371 · 1892
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 41 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011 · most notably Belden v. Chase (1893), Puerto Rico Ports Authority v. M/v Manhattan Prince, Sujeen Trading Pte., Ltd. v. Crowley Towing & Transportation Co. (1990)
62 federal appellate · 41 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 Colorado Coal & Iron Co. v. United States · The Nacoochee · The Manitoba · The Elizabeth Jones
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the collision does not result as a consequence of neglecting to keep a proper lookout, the vessel is not thereby made responsible for the consequences of the collision; * * *.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Elk · The Europe“where one ship has, by wrong manoeuvres, placed another ship in a position of extreme danger, that other ship will not be held to blame if she has done something wrong, and has not been manoeuvred with perfect skill and presence of mind.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel, or the owner or master or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper lookout, . . .” 30 Stats, at Large 102.”
1 later decision 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.