The Lafayette’s Empirical Analysis
269 F. 917 · 1920
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably Plamals v. The Pinar Del Rio (1928), Richmond Sand & Gravel Corp. v. Tidewater Const. Corp. (1948)
14 federal appellate · 6 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on The Oregon · Little v. Hackett · The Nacoochee · Walker v. Dun · The Carroll
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a steam vessel and a sailing vessel are proceeding in such directions as to involve risk of collision, the steam vessel shall keep out of the way of the sailing vessel.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When a vessel is put in great peril without any fault of her own, the question of her negligence in a sudden emergency does not depend upon whether she did everything she might have done or pursued the best possible course. In such cases the rule is that a mistake made in the agony of almost certain collision is regarded as an error for which the vessel that caused the peril should alone be held responsible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Stifinder
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.