Balado v. Lykes Bros. S. S. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.2d 943 · 1950
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1992 · most notably McAllister v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. (1958), Bartholomew v. Universe Tankships, Inc. (1959)
33 federal appellate · 5 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 Baltimore Co v. Phillips · Sellon v. Great Lakes Transit Corp. · McCarthy v. American Eastern Corp. · Skolar v. Lehigh Valley R.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In our opinion, election is required by the Jones Act only between a trial by jury and a suit in admiralty. Here that election was made when the plaintiff brought his action at law under the Jones Act.””
2 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.