The Sagamore’s Empirical Analysis
247 F. 743 · 1917
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably Dahlmer v. Bay State Dredging & Contracting Co. (1928), West India Oil Co. v. Compania Transatlantica De Barcelona (1924)
15 federal appellate · 11 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 Pennsylvania · The Oregon · The Belgenland · The Victory & The Plymothian · Mason v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been said by this court, in respect to steamers, that they are bound to reduce their speed to such a rate as will enable them to stop- in time to avoid a collision after an approaching vessel comes in sight, pro vided such approaching vessel is herself going at the moderate speed required by law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The denser the fog and the worse the weather the greater the cause for vigilance. A ship cannot be heard to say that a lookout was of no use because the weather was so thick that another ship could not be seen until actually in collision. Marsden on Collisions at Sea (6th Ed.) 472, 474.”
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.