The Dorchester’s Empirical Analysis
163 F. 779 · 1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1924
2 federal appellate · 1 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 Stitt v. Huidekopers · The Richmond · Wilder's S. S. Co. v. Low · Neally v. The Michigan · The Thingvalla
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This positive testimony by those on the schooner, in a position to see the lights, and know of their condition, will not be lightly rejected because other persons, whose duty it was to have seen them, either failed to observe, or happened not to see them. Nega-' tive evidence of this character cannot be accepted to outweigh positive evidence. The failure to observe a light cannot be said to disprove its existence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.