The Fairbanks’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 420 · 1869
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
March 1889
most recently cited
4 district ·
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The circumstances adduced do not satisfy the court that any such change of course was made by the brig as is supposed, certainly not until the proximity of the two vessels was so close that a collision was inevitable; and then it is quite clear that the steamer made a sudden change, and it may be that the brig also changed her course, as is supposed by the claimants. Fault, under such circumstances, will not be imputed to the vessel required to keep her course, if she was otherwise blameless.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pratt v. The Havilah
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