The Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
70 U.S. 164 · 1865
Citation profile
111 federal appellate · 54 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 317 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Zubik v. Zubik (1967), American Mail Line, Ltd. v. Skagit River Navigation & Trading Co. (1937)
111 federal appellate · 54 district · 3 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.
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 317 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The collision being caused by the Louisiana drifting from her moorings, she must be liable for the damages consequent thereon, unless she can show affirmatively that the drifting was the result of inevitable accident, or a vis major, which human skill and precaution, and a proper display of nautical skill could not have prevented.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Australia · The William E. Reis““Tlie collision being caused by the Louisiana drifting from her moorings, she must be liable for the damages consequent thereon, unless she can show affirmatively that the drifting was the result of inevitable accident, or a vis major, which lmman skill and precaution, and a proper display of nautical skill could not have prevented.” “The fact that the steamer was ordered by the government officers to take in coal at the old wharf, which had a narrow front when compared with the great length of the vessel, could not relieve the officers of the lioat from the duty of securing her in such a manner as to prevent her drifting when the change of the tide and winds changed the direction of the forces acting upon the vessel. And the fact that under these circumstances she did drift, is conclusive evidence that she was not sufficiently and properly secured.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inevitable accident, or a vis major, which human skill and precaution ... could not have prevented.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.