The Gate City’s Empirical Analysis
90 F. 314 · 1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1942
2 federal appellate · 3 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““She was carrying the lights required by law, and was not required to have-a flash light in readiness, so that it could be sent off if a steamer chanced to run across her course, with scarcely more than a minute’s and possibly a few seconds’ warning.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Lafayette
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.