The Coastwise’s Empirical Analysis
233 F. 1 · 1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2003
4 federal appellate · 4 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 The Delaware · Flint v. Christall · Russell Sturgis v. Herman Boyer · The Steamer Webb · The "Margaret."
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the ease before us, as in the case of The Webb [ 14 Wall. 406 , 20 L. Ed. 774 ], supra, the departure of the tug from her true course was enough to devolve upon her the duty of explanation. Under no stress of storm, she ran upon a well-known, well-charted shoal. She shows no operating cause, or accident, sufficient to produce the disaster; she has made no satisfactory explanation. The proofs show that there was nothing to prevent a mariner in the exercise of careful seamanship from keeping out to sea far enough to escape danger.””
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.