The North Star’s Empirical Analysis
151 F. 168 · 1907
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2000 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal v. United States (1932)
17 federal appellate · 8 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 Conqueror · Tilghman v. Proctor · Davis v. Schwartz · The Baltimore · La Bourgogne
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In ascertaining whether earnings have been lost by the owner, the inquiry is not whether they could possibly have been made, but is whether they would have been made. As it cannot be proved that they would have been certainly made, it suffices if the fact [of lost profits] is proved circumstantially and with a reasonable degree of certainty. . . It is not necessary for him to show by direct evidence that he would have employed his vessel . . during the period in such a way that earnings would have accrued to him. ... It suffices if he shows a state of facts from which a court or jury can find that there was an opportunity for him to do so, and that he would have availed himself of it. But if it appears affirmatively, or if the reasonable inference from the facts established is that there was no opportunity . . ., it is impossible for a court or jury to find legitimately that he has sustained actual loss.””
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.