Grasso v. Lorentzen’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.2d 127 · 1945
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1983 · most notably Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki (1946), Petterson v. Alaska S. S. Co. (1953)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 · 33 U.S.C. § 933
Relies on Beadle v. Spencer · Toomey v. Waterman S. S. Corp. · Liverani v. John T. Clark & Son · Matter of Devoy v. . Craig · Sessa v. Weeks Stevedoring Co.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a result of the amendment there must now be some official action by the Deputy Commissioner establishing an award of compensation in order to make such acceptance an assignment of the employee’s cause of action against a third party.””
2 later decisions 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.