The Diana’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““If the boats [steamer and bark] were in such position that there was not time to correctly ascertain what course the bark was holding, and to estimate whether the steamer could go to port or should proceed across the bark’s bows, then the steamer should have stopped and reversed so as to lessen the danger of the position.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. West India Oil Co. v. Compania Transatlantica De Barcelona