The Condor’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1977
4 federal appellate ·
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.
Relationships
Relies on The New York · The Delaware · May v. Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt Aktiengesellschaft · Walker v. Dun · Wilson v. Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The situation was not one of his choosing, and I have no doubt he acted correctly; but, whether he did or not, it was his best judgment at the time, and he is not to be charged with fault for error under such circumstances. The Maggie J. Smith, 123 U.S. 349 , 8 S.Ct. 159 , 31 L.Ed. 175 ; Wilson v. Pacific Mail S. S. Co., 276 U.S. 454 , 48 S.Ct. 369 , 72 L.Ed. 651 ; The Steel Inventor, supra [2 Cir., 43 F.2d 958 ]. Neither was the Nordpol at fault for failing to sound a one-blast whistle signal when the hard to starboard direct order was given in extremis. Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. v. Companhia [de Navegacao Lloyd Brasileiro] D.C., 50 F.2d 207 , affirmed [2 Cir.], 55 F.2d 1082 .” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“He did not testify, however, and the failure to call him raises a presumption that his testimony would have been unfavorable to the Condor if he had been called.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.