The Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
208 F. 635 · 1913
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1954
5 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 · The Martello · The Blue Jacket · United States v. St. Louis & Mississippi Valley Transportation Co. · The "Annie Lindsley"
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.
““An oncUon'd vessel, that can be clearly sighted and readily avoided by a slight ‘'ii.'uge of wheel, may not be an obstruction, but when she can with dil'iciili.y lie sighted, and when she requires other vessels on their usual courses to slop or to maneuver sharply, she may be considered an obstruction.” Brown, J., The Georgia, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Belfast
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.