The Union Steamship Company of Philadelphia v. The New York and Virginia Steamship Company’s Empirical Analysis
65 U.S. 307 · 1860
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 31 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1986 · most notably The Victory & The Plymothian (1897), Elaine Jones v. Griffith (1973)
13 federal appellate · 31 district · 2 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 William Cushing v. The Owners of the Ship John Fraser
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“everything which an experienced mariner could do, adopting ordinary caution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Inevitable accident, as applied to cases of tliis description, must be understood to mean ‘a collision wliicli occurs when both parties have endeavored by every means in their x'ower, with due care and caution, and proper display of nautical skill, to prevent the occurrence of the accident. The Locklibo, 3 W. Rob. 318 ; The John Frazer, 21 How. 184 .’ ” Union Steamship Co. v. N. Y. & Va. Steamship Co., 24 How. 307 , 16 L. Ed. 699 ; The Mabey, 81 U. S. (14 Wall.) 204, 20 L. Ed. 881 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Herm
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.