The Wenona’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 41 · 1873
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Belden v. Chase (1893), Fisk v. Henarie (1892)
11 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hall v. Jordan
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rules of navigation, such as have been mentioned, are obligatory upon vessels approaching each other, from the time the necessity of precaution begins, and continue to be applicable as the vessels advance, so long as the means and opportunity to avoid the danger remain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Breakwater
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.