Newton v. Stebbins’s Empirical Analysis
51 U.S. 586 · 1850
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
March 1908
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Relies on The Apollon · Rachel Canter v. The American Insurance Company · The Sybil
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be a matter of convenience that steam vessels should proceed with great rapidity, but the law will not justify them in proceeding with such rapidity if the lives and property of other persons are thereby endangered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quinette v. Bisso
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.