The Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
22 F. 848 · 1885
Citation profile
6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2013
6 district · 2 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 The Sapphire
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But (lie law of navigation which requires vessels lying at anchor in a fairway to have a light up is imperative. It must be obeyed. It must be effectively obeyed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Europe
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.