Coyle Lines, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
195 F.2d 737 · 1952
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Caradelis v. Refineria Panama, S. A. (1967), Bisso v. Waterways Transportation Co. (1956)
30 federal appellate · 1 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 Pennsylvania · Charles Clifton v. The United States · Waterman S. S. Corp. v. United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. · Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Kelly
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When, as in this case, a ship at the time of a collision, is in actual violation of a statutory rule intended to prevent collision, it is no more than a reasonable presumption that the fault, if not the sole cause, was at least a contributory cause of the disaster. In such a case the burden rests upon the ship of showing not merely that her fault might not have been one of the causes, or that it probably was not, but that it could not have been.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“All of these presumptions, in the final analysis, are mere aids to the court in getting at the right of the matter, and their relative weight must depend upon the circumstances of the particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Crow“and make such decree as ought to have been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Pinedo
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.