The Great Republic’s Empirical Analysis
90 U.S. 20 · 1874
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Western Pacific Fisheries, Inc. v. SS President Grant (1984), Compania De Maderas De Caibarien, S. A. v. Queenston Heights (1955)
38 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any case of collision, whenever it appears that one of the vessels has neglected the usual and proper measures of precaution, the burden is on her to show that the collision is not owing to her neglect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““This fault bears so little proportion to tbe many faults of the Republic that we do not think, under tbe circumstances, tbe Oleona should share tbe consequences of this collision with tbe Republic.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The M. J. Rudolph
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.