Western Transit Co. v. Benham’s Empirical Analysis
62 F. 87 · 1894
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1988
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Dyer v. National Steam Navigation Co. · The Britannia the Beaconsfield the Britannia v. Cleugh Same · The Ann Caroline · The Hypodame · Northern Steamship Co. v. Brown
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been the practice in this circuit, and particularly in that court over which so experienced and able an admiralty judge as Mr. Justice Brown presided for nearly 20 years, for the Distiict Judge to call to his assistance navigators of experience as nautical assessors. It was based on the practice, followed by the English admiralty judges, of advising with the elder brethren of Trinity House as to practical questions of seamanship and navigation. It has been approved by the Supreme Court of the United States, and it is of such long continuance that it is too late now to question its validity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Eleanore
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.