The Bright’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1977
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
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 Alexandre v. MacHan · The " Scotland" · The Ariadne · The "Colorado" · William Cushing v. The Owners of the Ship John Fraser
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.
“While it may be unwise to set gill nets on or near the usual and proper course frequented by vessels, Article 26 does not forbid such an act. Nevertheless, common sense requires that a fisherman consider the surrounding circumstances such as visibility, the width of the”
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.