The Britannia’s Empirical Analysis
213 F. 22 · 1914
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2018
3 federal appellate · 2 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 "Margaret." · Clark v. Hancock · The Brittania
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not mean to hold that a tug captain is ordinarily under any obligation to take personal measurements to- determine the ' draft of his tow, or to take personal soundings to ascertain the depth of water at a dock to which he is directed to go. But when he knows that there is probably no great margin of safety between the two-, it seems to us that ordinary reasonable prudence would require him at least to ask the master of the tow how much water she drew, and to ask the person who directed-him to tie up at a smaller doek than the one he was going to what depth of water * * * was supposed to be there. The master of the Britannia did neither and for this failure under all the eireumstanees, to make even sueh a simple effort to ascertain if the berth was a safe one, on a falling tide, we think she should he held in fault.””
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.