The Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
74 U.S. 656 · 1868
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1969 · most notably The Nacoochee (1890), The Elizabeth Jones (1884)
14 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mistakes committed in such moments of peril and excitement, when produced by the mismanagement of those in charge of the other vessel, are not of a character to relieve the vessel causing the collision from the payment of full damages to the injured vessel.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Columbia · The Lafayette“If. two sail vessels are meeting end.on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, the helms of both shall.be put to port so that each may pass on the port side of the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Dun
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.