The Marguerite’s Empirical Analysis
87 F. 953 · 1898
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1976
3 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 Oregon · Alexandre v. MacHan · Belden v. Chase · The Delaware · The "North Star"
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rules require a steamer to keep off the course of a sailing vessel if it is practically possible for the steamer to do so; that is to saj, if she can do so without accident, such as collision with another vessel, running aground, or the like- * * * In ease' of‘the manifest inability of the steamer to give way, therefore, and in that ease only, does she have the right of way over a sailing vessel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Devonian
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.