Hurlbut v. Turnure’s Empirical Analysis
76 F. 587 · 1896
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1941
4 federal appellate · 6 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The steamer left Ouba on the 3d of October, with a cargo of merchandise, including sugar of the respondents and others. An ordinary passage with her cargo, and in the probable condition of her bottom (not newly scraped), would have been eight days, or a few hours over, excluding any specially unfavorable weather. Her consumption of coal was 12 tons per day; and the evidence does not warrant my finding that on leaving Cienfuegos she had over 115 tons,--a. supply for, say, 9% days. She was 12 days, however, in reaching Newport News, still 1 day’s sail from New York. On the 4th of October (the second day out), on rounding St. Antonio, she met head winds and seas, and on (he 9th and 10th a northeast gale. ' This, on the 11th, became a hurricane, which continued through the 12th and 13th, and carried, her back on her course, so that she was unable to reach Newport News until the loth of October. On the morning of the 11th, with only 18 tons of coal left, the engineer began to use ashes and ship’s material along with the coal, and on ihe 12th, with but 12 tons of coal remaining, the use of sugar as fuel, along with coal, began. During the Iasi half day, on the 15th, before reaching Newport News, only sugar fuel, according to the ’ captain’s testimony, was used.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hurlbut v. Turnure““It has been repeatedly construed and adjudged not to authorize any departure to ports away from the ordinary course of the voyage, or for any purpose disconnected with the voyage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Pelotas
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.