Ladd v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
31 F. 827 · 1887
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1917
5 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 'Alabama' and the 'Game-Cock' · Althorf v. . Wolfe · Sherlock v. Alling · Chicago & Rock Island Railroad v. Morris · Kellogg v. . N.Y.C. and Hudson R.R.R. Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not claimed that there is any legislative authority for stretching this cable across the river, and using it as is done by the defendant, the Albina Ferry Company. A cable lying on the bottom of the river is not an obstruction to navigation, while, if stretched across at or near the surface of the water, it would be. Between these extremes it may depend on circumstances. When a ferry-boat, running on a cable stretched loosely across the river, in comparatively still water only takes the wire oil the ground a few feet in the front and rear of it, as it passes along, no material obstruction to navigation may result.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.