Roff v. The Westfield’s Empirical Analysis
38 F. 366 · 1889
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1914
4 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 New York and Virginia Steamship Company v. Ezra Calderwood · Alabama · The Narragansett · The Johanne Auguste · The Henry Warner
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.
““Where competent officers are in their places, attentive to their duties, and navigating tlieir vessel according to what can be seen, their testimony that no light was seen, which ought to have been seen and must have been seen if properly burning, is entitled to superior credit, if their evidence is not outweighed by other circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Livingstone
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.