The Middlesex’s Empirical Analysis
253 F. 142 · 1916
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1986
2 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 Belgenland · The Hamilton · La Bourgogne · The " Scotland" · The Chattahoochee
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Additional warnings of this character are intended to be used either to attract the attention of an approaching vessel which has apparently overlooked the vessel resorting tof it, or to warn an approaching vessel when she cannot otherwise be expected to locate accurately the place of the vessel showing the flare.””
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.