The Georgic’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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.

1. ““a steam vessel hearing, apparently forward of her beam, the fog signal of a vessel the position of which is not ascertained shall, so far as the circumstances of the ease admit, stop her engines, and then navigate with caution until danger of collision is over.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dorrington v. City of Detroit

2. “* * * become proverbial for uncertainty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States of America, as Charterer, Insurer and Underwriter, and Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc., as Owner of the Mobilgas, Libelants-Appellees v. Panama Transport Company and the Esso Balboa, Her Engines, Tackle, Apparel, Etc., Panama Transport Company, as Owner of the Esso Balboa, Cross-Libelant-Appellant v. United States of America, as Charterer, Insurer and Underwriter, and Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc., as Owner of the Mobilgas, Cross-Respondents-Appellees