The Falcon’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 75 · 1873
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 23 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1949 · most notably Neally v. The Michigan (1894), Pratt v. The Havilah (1892)
12 federal appellate · 23 district · 1 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was the duty of the steamer to see the schooner as soon as she could be seen, to watch her progress and direction, to take into account all the circumstances of the situation, and so govern herself as to guard against peril to either vessel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Ardanrose
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.