The Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But precautions, in order to be effectual; must be reasonable; and if they are not so and a collision ensues because they were not adopted earlier, it is no defense to show that they were adopted as soon as the necessity for the precaution was perceived, nor to prove that at the moment of the collision it was too late to render such a precaution of any service.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. S.S. Malden

2. ““ Tlio foregoing rules are to be complied with in all cases except when steamers are navigating in a crowded channel, or in the vicinity of wharves. Under such circumstances, steamers must be run and managed with great caution, sounding the whistle as may be necessary to guard against collision or other accidents. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. The B. B. Saunders

3. “crossing so as to involve risk of collision,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Victory & The Plymothian