Warner Co. v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.2d 57 · 1943
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1980
18 federal appellate · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 903
Relies on South Chicago Coal & Dock Co. v. Bassett · McGoldrick v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. · Loverich v. Warner Co. · De Wald v. Baltimore & O. R. Co. · South Chicago Coal & Dock Co. v. Bassett
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the question as to whether a particular claimant is `a master or member of a crew' of a vessel and therefore excluded from the Compensation Act is one of fact, it is necessarily an ultimate conclusion to be derived from an application of the statute to the basic findings of fact. As such, it is open to court review for a determination of its validity on the basis of the supportable facts as found by the Commissioner. In short, a Commissioner's conclusion that one is or is not `a master or member of a crew' is not binding upon a reviewing court if the basic facts competently found by the Commissioner rightly call for a different conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“based upon all services and time required to safeguard and operate the barge fleet, including necessary pumping, watching, or other emergency duties on Sundays and holidays.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Norton v. Warner Co.“master or member of a crew of any vessel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Norton v. Warner Co.
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.