The Ludvig Holberg’s Empirical Analysis
157 U.S. 60 · 1895
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 75 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1988 · most notably United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. (1975), The Victory & The Plymothian (1897)
105 federal appellate · 75 district · 4 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 Alexandre v. MacHan · The "Colorado" · Kiernan v. The Leonard Richards
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 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where fault on the part of one vessel is established by uncontradicted testimony, and such fault is, of itself, sufficient to account for the disaster, it is not enough for such vessel to raise a doubt with regard to the management of the other vessel. There is some presumption at least adverse to its claim, and any reasonable doubt with regard to the propriety of the conduct of such other vessel should be resolved in its favor.” Accord, The Victory, 1897, 168 U.S. 410 , 18 S.Ct. 149 , 42 L.Ed. 519 ; The Ludwig Holberg, 1895, 157 U.S. 60 , 15 S.Ct. 477 , 39 L.Ed. 620 ; U. S. v. Shaw, Savill & Albion Co., 2 Cir., 1949, 178 F.2d 849 ; TheoThilatos v. Martin Marine Transp. Co., 4 Cir., 1942, 127 F.2d 1016 ; General Sea Foods Corp. v. J. S. Packard D. Co., 1 Cir., 1941, 120 F.2d 117 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Mexico · The Newburgh““We cannot say that these findings exhibit any fault on the part of the steamship in this particular. She was clearly not bound to stop solely on account of the fog, and if she had been running dead slow for four or five minutes before the collision, she e.annotl be held in fault for what her previous speed may have been. If she ran 20 miles an hour down to the Narrows, and was running dead slow at the time she first heard the tug’s whistle, fault could not be imputed to her for her previous speed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No ease has ever held that a steamer was obliged to stop at the first signal heard by her unless its proximity be such as to indicate immediate danger.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Georgic
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.