Gudmundson v. Cardillo’s Empirical Analysis
126 F.2d 521 · 1942
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1988 · most notably Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. National Van Lines, Inc. (1979), United States v. Jones (1975)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901
Relies on Crowell v. Benson · Keller v. Potomac Electric Power Co. · Neild v. District of Columbia · Hillen v. Industrial Accident Commission · Neild v. District of Columbia
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The case we have does not arise under the Longshoremen’s Act, though doubtless it might if the injury had occurred on a vessel in the Potomac River, tied to a Washington dock. True enough, the language and provisions of the national Act are made applicable to the District, but the two Acts are wholly separate and distinct, for the reason that in the one Congress was exercising the judicial pow ers conferred under Art. Ill, whereas in the other — the local act — Congress was exercising the powers granted in Sec. 8 of the Art. I, and these powers, . .. include . . . the powers of the State[,] ... a delegation which ... embraces full and unlimited jurisdiction ... to provide for the general welfare of citizens within the District of Columbia ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An act to provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia and for other purposes, approved May 18, 1928 ( 45 Stat. 600 ; D.C.Code sec. 36-501— 503) is hereby repealed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.