The Transfer No. 8’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We fully concur with the finding of the District Judge that at this part of the river, ‘on a strong flood tide, there is not reasonable and sufficient time and space for the * * * maneuvers necessary to avoid collision with any certainty, if signals are not exchanged before the vessels themselves are seen.’ The responsibility for this collision rests upon the vessel which, by failure to give notice of her own approach, deprived the other of the ‘reasonable and sufficient time and space’ which it needed properly to carry out the obligations laid upon it by the .starboard hand rule.””

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

2. ““The fault of the Waterman is so glaring, and its consequences precipitated a situation involving such difficulties, that we are not inclined to he severely critical of the maneuvers by which the Transfer undertook to escape from it.””

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

3. ““Tins rule, literally construed, is imperative upon every steamer nearing such short bend or curve, whatever may be her own intention as to future navigation after she shall have reached it.””

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