Flint & P. M. R. Co. v. Marine Ins.’s Empirical Analysis
71 F. 210 · 1895
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1975
4 federal appellate · 2 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 The Pennsylvania · Belden v. Chase · Delaware Co v. Converse · The Ariadne · North Pennsylvania v. Commercial Nat Bank of Chicago
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of the supervising inspectors that all passenger and freight steamers shall have one of the crew on watch in or near the pilot house is authorized by Rev. St. § 4405 [U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 3017], requiring the inspectors to establish rules necessary to carry out the statutory provisions-as to steam vessels, among which is one that the vessel shall carry 'a l!ull crew, sufficient at all times to manage the vessel.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Where a vessel has committed a positive breach of statute she must show that not only probably her fault did not contribute to the disaster, but that it certainly did not; and that it could not- have done so.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.