Warren v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.2d 919 · 1949
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1973
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co. · Farrell v. United States · O'Donnell v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. · Hoiness v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case at bar, the risk of serious injury or even death if the seaman should fall over the cliff, was obvious; and the requisite degree of care correspondingly higher. In the face of evident danger, the care which Warren took was very slight — a mere casual glance at the rod which he thought to be a ‘lightning arrester or something of that type.’ We think that a man who acts as he did under circumstances of danger does not show even a minimal degree of regard for the consequences of his act. Unless his ship is to be an insurer of his safety, he cannot recover against her.” 179 F. 2d 919 , 922.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) sickness and injury occurring between the date specified in the articles of 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 misbehaviour 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.