The Patria’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. ““No exception to the general rule that a sailing vessel must keep her course can, however, be allowed, except where it is entirely clear, not only that by changing her course she would in fact have avoided the collision, but that under the circumstances of the moment, as they appeared to the sailing vessel, escape by that means was so easy and obvious to a person of ordinary nautical judgment that it was clear negligence to omit it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brigham v. Luckenbach

2. ““Tlie schooner’s fog horn would naturally be hoard later than the steamer’s whistles, both because it was not so powerful as the steam whistle and also because the blasts of a fog horn, unlike ihose of a steum whistle, are more specially operative along a particular axis, which much diminishes their penetration outside of the limited are towards which the horn happens to be directed.””

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

3. ““That neither vessel should hear the fog signals of the other until they were near each other is not uncommon in fogs of variable density. See The Niagara (D. C.) 77 Fed. 330 , affirmed in 28 C. C. A. 528 , 84 Fed. 902 ; The Lepanto (D. C.) 21 Fed. 656 , 657.””

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