Byars v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.2d 587 · 1946
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 1988 · most notably Bruszewski v. Isthmian S. S. Co. (1947), Filipek v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1958)
22 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Kowalsky v. Conreco Company · Mullin v. Genesee County Electric Light, Power & Gas Co. · Hess v. Bernheimer & Schwartz Pilsener Brewing 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reason for this exception to the general rule is that it would be manifestly absurd to hold a master to the duty of providing a safe place when the very work in which the servant is engaged makes it unsafe.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The duty of an owner to repair implies that the workman employed to make the repair assumes the risk.”
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.