The Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
264 F. 986 · 1920
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1973
7 federal appellate · 8 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 La Bourgogne · Butler v. Boston & Savannah Steamship Co. · Wesley Richardson v. Judson Harmon · Pendleton v. Benner Line · Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Co. v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Perhaps the owner cannot deny privity or knowledge, if the disaster happened in whole or in part because he more or less consciously took a chance, or closed his eyes to something he did not want to be bothered about, or because in some other way he fell short of what a fair-minded, well-informed, and impartial man would feel was his moral duty in the premises.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The inspection laws and regulations were not obeyed and this disobedience had it s part in causing the deaths, the injuries to the passengers, and the loss ol' their baggage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““I have concluded that the negligence of the petitioners does not amount to privity or knowledge, within the meaning of those words as used in section 4283.””
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.