McCarthy v. American Eastern Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 724 · 1949
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010 · most notably McAllister v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. (1958), Bartholomew v. Universe Tankships, Inc. (1959)
37 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · The Osceola · Baltimore Co v. Phillips · Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co. · Panama Co v. Johnson
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We conclude, in accord with our decision in the German case, that the trial judge rightly permitted the jury to base its verdict for the single recovery to which under the law the plaintiif was entitled on both the unseaworthiness of the vessel and the negligence of the members of the crew.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he election to which the Jones Act refers is an election of remedies as between a suit in admiralty and a civil action.”
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.