Williams v. The Exe’s Empirical Analysis
57 F. 399 · 1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1915
1 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 Williams v. Exe
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless the strain or wrench was caused by some sudden or violent straining of the vessel on some of the occasions when she was plunging and rolling heavily, or by the pressure of the cargo-, which yielded and surged with the surging of the ship, or by a combination of these conditions, the cause of it cannot be explained or even conjectured.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Aggi““The primary cause of the loss was the excepted cause, — the violent seas which set in motion the train of events that resulted in the entrance of the water into the hold, and the injury of the cargo.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Aggi
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.