The Ellen McGovern’s Empirical Analysis
27 F. 868 · 1886
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1954
4 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where one of a large number of boats in a tow is injured by striking some obstruction on a trip over a common and safe route, the burden is upon the tug to give some rational explanation of the injury, or a consistent account of the trip, that may satisfy the court that there was no lack of due care in navigation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The W. G. Mason
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.