Duluth Superior Bridge Company v. Steamer 'Troy'’s Empirical Analysis
208 U.S. 321 · 1908
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 11 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2006 · most notably Rodrigue v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1969), Atlantic Transport Company of West Virginia v. Frank Imbrovek (1914)
42 federal appellate · 11 district · 7 state decisions
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 Cleveland Terminal Valley Railroad Company v. Cleveland Steamship Company
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That it appears from the averments of the libel that the bridge alleged to have been injured was a structure on land, for purposes of land travel and convenience exclusively, not erected, maintained, or operated in any sense or in any degree in aid of navigation, but, on the contrary, an obstruction and impediment to the navigation of a public navigable water channel and highway, a part of the pub- lie waters of the United States, then and there navigable to ships engaged in commerce and navigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.