The Alabama’s Empirical Analysis
19 F. 544 · 1884
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2005
6 federal appellate · 5 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 Hypodame · Endner v. Greco · Cope v. Vallette Dry-Dock · Cope v. Vallette Dry-Dock 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ha[d] the capacity to be navigated in and upon the waters, and they [were] water-craft made for navigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The dredge and scows have no means of propulsion of their own except that the dredge, by the use of anchors, windlass, and rope, is moved for short distances, as required in carrying on the business of dredging. Both the dredge and the scows are moved from place to place where they may be employed by being towed, and some of the tows have been for long distances and upon the high seas. The dredge and scows are not made for or adapted to the carriage of freight or passengers, and the evidence does not show that, in point of fact, this dredge and scows had ever been so used and employed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may have no motive power of their own, and be moved only by power applied externally,”
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.