Kable v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
169 F.2d 90 · 1948
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably Keen v. Overseas Tankship Corp. (1952), Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Inc. v. United States (1968)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co. · Jamison v. Encarnacion · Tynan v. United States · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Cardillo · Alpha Corporation v. Cain
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a superior officer assaulted an inferior in the prosecution of the ship's work. Indeed, there is some authority that the principle does not apply where the person committing the assault had no authority over the one injured.”
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.