The Roanoke’s Empirical Analysis
46 F. 297 · 1891
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1930
3 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 New Jersey Steam Navigation Company v. The Merchants' Bank of Boston · Franklin Moore George Foot and George Bagley v. The American Transportation Company · Barnard v. Adams · Star of Hope · The Columbian Insurance Company of Alexandria v. Ashby and Stribling
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The objection that the act was that of the municipal authorities, without direction or concurrence on the part of the master, is ill sustained in point of fact. The protest discloses that the alarm was given, and the fire department called 'into- action, by the master of the vessel. The action of the firemen was therefore by his procurement. Subsequent flooding was the direct act of master and crew.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ralli v. Troop · The Beatrice“The master must be presumed to have designed the consequences necessarily resulting from the act directed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ralli v. Troop“It was a selection by the master for sacrifice of that which by the act must necessarily be destroyed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ralli v. Troop
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.