The America’s Empirical Analysis
174 F. 724 · 1910
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1959
6 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 Terry & Tench Co. v. Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The libellant’s ease rests altogether upon the presumption that because she sank without apparent cause she was necessarily un-seaworthy but it does not seem that such a presumption can be of any force in the face ■ of the controlling evidence that the boat was seaworthy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.