The Conoho’s Empirical Analysis
24 F. 758 · 1885
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2003
3 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 Oliver
Most-quoted passages
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““Tlio strict observance of these rules is necessary to the safety of navigation. By their observance the navigation of steamers at night is rendered as safe as it is by day. * * These two sorts of lights (range lights) are probably more important in narrow channels than the red and while lights. They are both essential. It is for this reason that every steamer navigating narrow waters at night is required to have these lights up. If a steamer has them not it is in fault;, it is grossly in fault. It takes the risk and responsibility of whatever may happen when they are not up. The burden of proof is upon the steamer to show that they were up. The proof must be positive. It must not be a matter of inference. These lights must be shown to have been up at the time of the collision and long enough during the moments just previously to have permitted the - approaching vessel to make the maneuvers proper for avoiding a collision. There can be no safe navigation of our inland waters by steamers at night unless the master of each steamer knows that these lights are up at every moment while lie is in motion. What I said in the case of The Oliver, 22 Fed. 848 , I repeat with emphasis and enlargement: The law as to lights is imperative. It must be obeyed. It must be effectively obeyed. Obedience to the requirements of the law must be certain and unremitted. The master, or officer in charge, must know that the lights are continually up. Conjecture will not do. If he does not look to it hi”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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