The Mason’s Empirical Analysis
249 F. 718 · 1918
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2012
9 federal appellate · 4 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 "Dove" · Hiltetrant v. City of Chester · The Persian · The Umbria · The Mason
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In good weather and harbor waters, the tugs In broad daylight put aground a vessel having at the time no motive power of her own, and completely under the control of the tugs. * * * If negligence is not inferable from such circumstances, it is difficult to Imagine anything that could justify the conclusion short of a proven intent to injure another’s property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Helen B. Moran
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.