Hastorf v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

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3 district ·

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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.

1. ““By the charter or hire of the scow, she was under the direction and control of the respondent in discharging the stone; it was the respondent’s duty to give her ¡1 safe berth, and any change of position for the purpose of unloading was within the control of the respondent, or of the person or persons with whom the respondent might leave the work of unloading.. The plaintiff’s man who was on board the scow could have had no object in hauling her back and inshore, and he had no previous knowledge of the ground. * * * The presence of the scowman, in my opinion, could make no difference in this responsibility, unless the removal were under his direction or with his acquiescence, with clear knowledge of the bottom. It was not. his duty to examine the ground, nor was a removal by defendant’s men, in the ordinary course of un loading, a change of place for which the seowman or the libelant was responsible.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thompson v. Winslow