The Merrill C. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
188 F. 49 · 1911
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1945
3 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 Merrill C. Hart
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Manifestly, however, she approached so close to the vessel she supposed she was overtaking that a sudden change of course by the latter would bring about a collision. But she should not have come so close to an overtaken vessel without signal. The overtaken vessel is not required to look behind before she changes her course, however abruptly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.