Lindquist v. Dilkes’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.2d 21 · 1942
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Debt v. Wyer (1959), Bartholomew v. Universe Tankships, Inc. (1959)
34 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Relies on Hurn v. Oursler · Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor · Siler v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Armstrong Paint & Varnish Works v. Nu-Enamel Corp. · Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal v. United States
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the course of his employment may, at his election, maintain an action for damages at law, with the right of trial by jury, and in such action all statutes of the United States modifying or extending the common-law right or remedy in eases of personal injury to railway employees shall apply; * * ”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * the sailor’s duty is to disclose whatever he as an ordinarily prudent person should have known is material to the risk.” at page 24.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If, for instance, he has lied to his prospective captain, he should be and is left to his own devices.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.