Bath v. Sargent Line Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . to recover damages for the seaman’s death when caused by negligence, for and on behalf of designated beneficiaries, is necessarily exclusive and precludes the right of recovery of indemnity for his death by reason of unseaworthiness of the vessel, irrespective of negligence, which cannot be eked out by resort to the death statute of the State in which the injury was received.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 63 Wash. 2d 592 - Harrison v. a Bar a Ranch, Inc. · 207 F. Supp. 276 - Burns v. Marine Transport Lines, Inc.