The Pemaquid’s Empirical Analysis
255 F. 709 · 1918
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 1956
2 federal appellate · 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 Umbria · The Chattahoochee · Lie v. San Francisco & Portland Steamship Co. · The Ludvig Holberg · New York & Liverpool United States Mail Steamship Co. v. Rumball
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.
““That moderate speed implies the ability of a vessel to stop her headway in tho presence of danger; that vessels in a fog are bound to reduce their speed to such a rate as will enable them to stop in time to avoid a collision after the approaching vessel comes in sight, providing such approaching vessel is herself going at the moderate speed required by law. The Chattahoochee, 173 U. S. 540 , 548, 19 S. Ct. 491 , 43 L. Ed. 801 ; The Umbria, 166 U. S. 404 , 17 S. Ct. 610 , 41 L. Ed. 1053 ; The Sagamore, 247 F. 743 , 746, 750, 159 C. C. A. 601 ; The Lepanto [D. C.] 21 F. 651 , 659; The Michigan [D. C.] 63 F. 295 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The rulo cannot mean, then, that it is necessary for those upon a steamer to see an approaching steamer in order to ‘ascertain’ her position. Such ascertainment must be by other means than by sight.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Ansaldo Savoia
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.