Smith v. Bacon’s Empirical Analysis
194 F.2d 203 · 1952
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 1983 · most notably China Union Lines, Ltd., Mitsubishi International Corporation, Lan Jing-Chau, Armement Deppe, S.A. v. A. O. Andersen & Co., American Cyanamid Company (1966), C. J. Dick Towing Co. v. The Leo (1953)
25 federal appellate ·
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 Pennsylvania · The New York · The Propeller Genesee Chief Pierce Kelsey Cheney Hunter Swan Clark Strong v. Fitzhugh Littlejohn Peck · The Ottawa · The "Sunnyside"
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Furthermore, it is without dispute that at the time of the collision there was no independent or competent lookout other than the relief captain, Maxwell, on duty anywhere on the tug `Roland' or its tow. Maxwell was acting as helmsman, and although appellees argue that he was also competent to act as his own lookout, the authorities are to the effect that the helmsman or officer in charge of the craft cannot under such circumstances be considered as a lookout.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Petrich v. Hansen
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.