The Cayuga’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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

1. “For the use of vessels of this class there is no such thing as a market price fixed by various transactions between various persons. Ferry-boats are not general ships, up for charter or hire in open market, and it is impossible to refer to any such market to show the value of the use of such a vessel at the time in question.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 487 F. Supp. 2d 1029 - MCI, LLC v. Patriot Engineering & Environmental, Inc.

2. “can only be intended to be applied in cases where there is such a market to refer to, but not in a case where it is made to appear that no such thing as a market price exists. In the absence of a market price to refer to, some other evidence must be allowable in a case like this....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 487 F. Supp. 2d 1029 - MCI, LLC v. Patriot Engineering & Environmental, Inc.