Adams v. Bolivia’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 10 district ·

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But when as in this case, a ship at the time of a collision is in actual violation of a statutory rule, intendeq to prevent collisions, it is no more than a reasonable presumption that the fault, if not the sole cause, was at least a contributory cause of the disaster. In such a ease the burden rests upon the ship of showing not merely that her fault might not have been one of the causes, or that it probably was not, but that it could not have been. Such a rule is necessary to enforce obedience to the mandate of the statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Robert M. Thompson

2. ““Tlie rule is firmly established in this country, and also in England, that the speed of a steamship is not moderate — at least in localities where there is a likelihood of meeting other vessels — if it is such that she cannot reverse her engines and be brought to a standstill, within the distance at which, in the condition of the fog, she can discover another vessel.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Columbia

3. ““We cannot agree with the opinion of the learned district judge that the fault of the steamship was not contributory to the collision. . The burden is upon her to show that it was not and from the nature of the ease this cannot be done. If she had been going slower, she would not have reached the place of the collision when the schooner was there.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Robert M. Thompson