The New York’s Empirical Analysis

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273 federal appellate · 150 district · 7 state decisions

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 683 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Nothing is better settled than that, if a steamer be approaching another vessel which has disregarded her signals, or whose position or movements are uncertain, she is bound to stop until her course be ascertained with certainty. * * * The lesson that steam vessels must stop their engines in the presence of danger, or even of anticipated danger, is a hard one to learn, but the failure to do so has been the cause of the condemnation of so many vessels that it would seem that these repeated admonitions must ultimately have some, effieet.””

   14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Richmond · Donald v. Guy

2. “"The New York made no answer to this third signal. The duty of the Conemaugh at this juncture was plain. She should have stopped her engines after the second signal, and, if necessary to bring her to a complete standstill, have reversed them. Nothing is better settled than that, if a steamer be approaching another vessel which has disregarded her signals, or whose position or movements are uncertain, she is bound to stop until her course be ascertained with certainty."”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. v. Great Lakes S. S. Co. · Partenreederei Wallschiff v. the Pioneer

3. ““The night was clear, and there appears to have been no difficulty in seeing the white and colored lights of the Burlington and her tow, and should have been none in seeing the lights of the Conemaugh. No reason is given why the signals of the Conemaugh were not heard, and as tho New York was not more than a mile distant from her when her first signal was blown, and considerably less than that when the second signal was blown, her inability to hear them is inexplicable, except upon the theory that no sufficient lookout was maintained, or that such lookout did not attend properly to his duties. Her officers failed conspicuously to see what they ought to have seen or to hear what they ought to have heard. This, unexplained, is conclusive evidence of a defective lookout.””

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brigham v. Luckenbach · City of Los Angeles v. Standard Transp. Co.