The Garland’s Empirical Analysis
5 F. 924 · 1881
Citation profile
6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1970
6 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 Insurance Company v. Brame · Hubgh v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad · Holmes v. O. & C. Ry. Co. · Hermann v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad
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.
“Were this an original question, ... I should-feel compelled to hold that this libel could not be maintained-. But other courts of admiralty in this country have furnished so many precedents for a contrary ruling, I do not feel at liberty to disregard them, although I am at loss to understand why a rule of liability differing from that of the common law ■ should obtain in these courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Harrisburg
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.