The "Sunnyside"’s Empirical Analysis
91 U.S. 208 · 1875
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 26 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1973 · most notably The New York (1899), Belden v. Chase (1893)
25 federal appellate · 26 district · 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Schooner Catharine v. Noah Dickinson · Railroad Company v. Dubois · Farnum v. Town of Concord · The Continental
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Cases arise in navigation where a stubborn adherence to a general rule is a culpable fault, for the reason that every navigator ought to know that rules of navigation are ordained not to promote collisions, but to save life and property by preventing such disasters.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The New York · The Patria“‘‘'Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any ship, or the owner, master or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper lookout, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen or the special circumstances of the case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Inability to avoid a collision usually exists at the time the collision occurs; but it is seldom a matter of much difficulty to trace the cause of the disaster to some antecedent omission of duty on the part of one or the other, or both, of the colliding' vessels.””
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.