Jenks’s Empirical Analysis
54 F. 1021 · 1893
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1970
5 federal appellate · 4 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 The Lady Pike
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is unnecessary to determine whether or not the towage service was undertaken upon the express agreement that the owner of the canal boat should assume the entire responsibility, for such an agreement, if made, would not exempt the tug from proper and reasonable skill and care in her navigation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Somers N. Smith““If the tug Bad kept, the middle of the cut there would have been 20 feet of clear water on either side. Failure to do this was negligence” — citing The Lady Pike, 21 Wall. 1 , 22 L. Ed. 499 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Helen B. Moran
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.