The Grace Girdler’s Empirical Analysis
74 U.S. 196 · 1868
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 27 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2003 · most notably United States v. Sellers (1973), The "Wanata" (1877)
16 federal appellate · 27 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 Ship Marcellus
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Inevitable" accident is where a vessel is pursuing a lawful avocation in a lawful'nianner, using the proper precautions against danger, and an accident occurs. 'Hie highest degree of caution that can be used is 'not required. * It is enough that it is reasonable under the circumstances.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Neel v. Blythe · The Jumna““While fault is shown on the part of the damaging vessel, it is incumbent on liar to show that such fault had in no degree the relation of cause and effect to the accident. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Leland
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.