The Bordentown’s Empirical Analysis
16 F. 270 · 1883
Citation profile
8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1947
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 Mason v. The Steam-Tug William Murtaugh · Connolly v. Ross · The William Cox
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.
““This court has repeatedly held it negligence-in both the owner and the tug to proceed on a voyage with a tow known to both to be unfit to encounter the hazards of the trip.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Gypsum King
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.