The Three Bros.’s Empirical Analysis
170 F. 48 · 1909
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1962
5 federal appellate · 2 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 Three Bros.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Its purpose is to prevent collisions, not to produce them. It is not an inflexible rule to be followed in all cases, and, where it is manifest that a blind adherence will produce disaster, it is not only the right but the duty of the navigator to, disregard it. The rule so states explicitly. It must be followed only ‘when it is safe and practicable.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Santa Maria““Art. 25. In narrow channels every steam-vessel shall, when it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fair-way or mid-channel which lies on the starboard side of such vessel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Santa Maria““That in narrow channels every steam vessel shall, when It is safe and practicable, keep to the side of the fairway or midchannol which lies to the starboard side of such vessel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Klatawa
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.