Jeffries v. De Hart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 2 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““All that the mate of the vessel, or any other agent of De Hart, really did, was to passively permit the workmen of the Cronise Company to employ such part of iho vessel’s tackle as they saw proper, instead of furnishing the gear which, under the agreement the ship might have been required to furnish; but of this departure from the terms of the contract Jeffries could not have complained, for he was neither a party nor privy to it. Consequently, whatever duty of care was owing to him was, under the circumstances, duo by his employer, the Cronise Company, and not by the ship or its owner. If the appliances were negligently selected, those who made the selection were at fault, and not the defendant in error, who neither by himself nor by any agent of his or of the ship participated in that selection, or was under any obligation to Jeffries to direct or control it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Atlantic Transport Co. v. Maryland ex rel. Jakubczak