The Pennsylvania’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 125 · 1873
Citation profile
728 federal appellate · 202 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,650 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (1946), United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. (1975)
728 federal appellate · 202 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
Cited together with United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · The Oregon · McAllister v. United States · Lie v. San Francisco & Portland Steamship Co. · Belden v. Chase
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 1,650 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not merely that her fault might not have been one of the causes, or that it probably was not, but that it could not have been.”
80 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““And even if it were true that such a rate was necessary for safe steerage, it would not justify driving the steamer through so dense a fog along a route so much frequented, and where the probability of encountering other vessels was so great. It would rattier have been her duty to lay to.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Where a vessel has committed a positive breach of statute she must show that not only probably her fault did not contribute to the disaster, but that it certainly did not; and that it could not- have done so.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.