Car Float No. 4’s Empirical Analysis
89 F. 877 · 1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1944
2 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I do not find that any blame is to be attached to her for mooring where she did, or in respect to the lines' by which she was made fast. Both lines were in good order, and of the usual strength, and her breaking away is naturally accounted for by the contact and pressure of the steamship in a very high wind.””
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.