The Alberta’s Empirical Analysis
23 F. 807 · 1885
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1948
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Plymouth · The "Colorado"
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.
““If a steamer in a thick fog, so thick she can hardly see before her, hears another vessel in her neighborhood on either bow, not being able to see her, and she herself not going at her slowest pace, the question is whether, under those circumstances, the officer in charge of the steamer ought not to conclude that it is necessary, in order to avoid risk ol' collision, that he should stop and reverse. I do not hesitate to lay down the rule, not strictly as a matter of law, but as a matter of conduct, that the moment such circumstances as these happen, it is necessary, under the article, to stop and reverse.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. The Umbria · The North Star
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.