The Helen’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.2d 54 · 1924
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1965
3 federal appellate ·
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 China · The Barnstable · Homer Ramsdell Transportation Company v. La Compagnie Generale Transatlantique · V New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company and the Steam Tug Charles E Matthews John D Daily et al. · Ralli v. Troop
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * The defense that the master of one of the tugs was on the bridge in command is insufficient because he was acting as a pilot hired voluntarily by the owners of the Helen, and as to third parties the Helen is responsible for damages caused by fault in her navigation. * * * ” 5 F.2d at page 55 . a *”
2 later decisions 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.