The Steamer Oregon Roger Heirn Master and Part-Owner v. Joseph and Francis Rocca the Steamer Oregon Roger a Heirn Master and Part-Owner’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 570 · 1855
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Belden v. Chase (1893), New York & Liverpool United States Mail Steamship Co. v. Rumball (1858)
6 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
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 Edward St John v. Zebulon a Paine · Webster v. Cooper · Jonathan W. Nesmith v. Thomas C. Sheldon · James White v. Hiram Turk
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Practically, wlien a rule for this purpose is laid down, it is rendered ineffectual by admitting exceptions to it. The mind begins to waiver as soon as the danger arises, and the exception, rather than the rule, becomes a subject of solicitude with the masters of both boats, and this, practically, annuls the rule, and causes the movements of both vessels to be uncertain.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Marguerite
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.