The Dexter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 federal appellate · 19 district ·

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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Sufficient lookouts are required by the rules of navigation, but where it appears that the officer in charge of the deck saw the approaching vessel while she was yet so distant that no precautions to avoid a collision had become necessary, and that the want of a lookout did not and could not have contributed to the collision, the vessel omitting such a proper precaution will not be held responsible for the consequences of the disaster if in all other respects she is without fault.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Lake Monroe

2. ““It is not necessary to consider what was done by the respective vessels when they were some distance from each other; as it is clear they had ample time and opportunity to adopt every needful precaution to avoid the collision after it must have been apparent to both that they were fast approaching each other from opposite directions.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cleugh v. The Britannia

3. “If. two sail vessels are meeting end.on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, the helms of both shall.be put to port so that each may pass on the port side of the other.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Walker v. Dun