Alabama’s Empirical Analysis
17 F. 847 · 1883
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1956
5 federal appellate · 12 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
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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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To go at full speed in such a fog is not a compliance with rule 21, which requires steamers in a fog to go at moderate speed. * * * No steamer’s speed is moderate in the sense of rule 21 so long as she is going at her ordinary full speed.””
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.