The Syracuse’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 672 · 1869
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 26 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1970 · most notably The J. P. Donaldson (1897), Moss v. Ramey (1916)
19 federal appellate · 26 district · 4 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A tug with a vessel in tow is in a very different position from one unencumbered. ,Sbe is not mistress of her motions. She cannot advance, retreat, or turn either way at discretion. She is bound to consult their safety as well as her own. She must see that what clears her of danger does not put them in peril. For many purposes it may be regarded ns a part of herself. They have the benefit of her traction, and she the burden of their inertia.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Favorite · The Jamestown
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.