McCarthy v. American Eastern Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 727 · 1949
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably 169 W. Va. 673 - Harless v. First National Bank in Fairmont (1982), Gypsum Carrier, Inc. v. Handelsman (1962)
39 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Winters v. People of State of New York · Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor · Pacific Co v. Peterson · The Bouker No. 2 · McCarthy v. American Eastern Corp.
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * in the admiralty as elsewhere in the law a litigant may not recover compensation for a single claim more than once. The ancient rule in the admiralty that the vessel and her owner must provide an injured seaman with maintenance was intended to assure him three meals a day and a bed in which to sleep during his treatment and convalescence. There is no basis in logic or law for assuming that he may ask for six meals a day or twin beds, however.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * when an injured seaman recovers full damages in an action for indemnity based upon unseaworthiness and negligence in which he has claimed loss of wages including the value of the board and lodging which form part thereof and medical expenses, if any, he has thereby recovered the maintenance and cure to which he is entitled up to the time of trial, at least.”
3 later decisions 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.