Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.2d 550 · 1948
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1971
17 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor · Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co. · Kyriakos v. Goulandris · 69 F. Supp. 755 - Nowery v. Smith · Meyer v. Dollar S. S. Line
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. The shipowner shall be liable in re-spent of— “(a) sickness and injury occurring between ■ the date specified in the articles -*f agreement for reporting for duty and the termination of the engagement; “(b) death resulting- from such sickness or injury. “2. Provided that national laws or regulations may make exceptions in respect of:. “(a) injury incurred otherwise than in the service of the ship ;. “(b) injury or sickness due to the wilful act, default or misbehavior of the sick, injured or deceased person; “(c) sickness' or infirmity intentionally concealed .when .the engagement is entered into.”
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.