Seabrook v. Raft of Railroad Cross-Ties’s Empirical Analysis
40 F. 596 · 1889
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1979
6 federal appellate · 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 Clarita and the Clara · The "Virginia Ehrman" · The Rock Island Bridge · Martin v. Hazard Powder Co. · Beckwith v. Bean
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Vessels in motion are required to keep out of the way of a vessel at anchor, if the latter is without fault, unless it appears that the collision was the result of inevitable accident; the rule being that the vessel in motion must exonorate herself from blame by showing that it was not in her power to prevent the collision by adopting any practicable precautions. Citing cases.”
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.