The Leland’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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. ““It is an undoubted violation of the sailing rules for a steamer to run at a reckless or dangerous rate of speed in a fog. What is a moderate, and what is a dangerous, rate of speed, are, of course, to some extent, comparative terms, depending upon surrounding circumstances. * * * This rate of speed, (8 miles per hour,) I have no doubt, was too great in a dense fog, in the night-time, upon waters where the liability to collision was so imminent as on the waters of Lake Michigan, even at this early season of the year.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Nacoochee · Clare v. Providence & S. S. Co.

2. ““I know what steam-boat men say, that they must make their time; that they must run in a fog. But they cannot be permitted to run with their usual speed in a fog, surrounded by sail-vessels, against which they are liable to collide at any moment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clare v. Providence & S. S. Co.

3. “Every steam-vessel, when approaching another vessel, so as to involve risk of collision, shall slacken her speed, or, if necessary, stop and reverse; and every steam-vessel shall, when in a fog, go at a moderate speed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Nacoochee