The Caldy’s Empirical Analysis
153 F. 837 · 1907
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1994 · most notably Atlantic Refining Co. v. Moller (1943), Dahlmer v. Bay State Dredging & Contracting Co. (1928)
9 federal appellate · 10 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 Caddy
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That it shall not be lawful to tie up or anchor vessels or other craft in navigable channels in such a manner as to prevent or obstruct the passage of other vessels or cral’t.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. The Annasona · In re Grand Manan““If a vessel anchors at a point in the channel where, .notwithstanding such anchorage, other vessels navigated with the care the situation requires can safely pass, then she has neither violated the statute nor rendered herself liable under the general rules applicable to navigation, even though she has to a certain extent obstructed the channel.” The Job H. Jackson (D. C.) 144 Fed. 896 ; Ann. J. Trainer, 152 Fed. 1021 , 82 C. C. A. 332 ; The Caldy, 153 Fed. 837 , 83 C. C. A. 19 ; The City of Birmingham, 138 Fed. 555 , 559, 71 C. C. A. 115 ; The Europe, 190 Fed. 475 , 111 C. C. A. 307 ; The John G. McCullough (C. C.) 232 Fed. 637 ; The W. H. Gilbert, 232 Fed. 547 , 146 C. C. A. 505 .”
3 later decisions 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.