Mackey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.2d 241 · 1952
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Pan American World Airways, Inc. v. California Stevedore & Ballast Co. (1977), Miller Export Corp. v. Hellenic Lines, Ltd. (1982)
8 federal appellate · 2 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 Commercial Molasses Corp. v. New York Tank Barge Corp. · Tristram Clark v. Nathaniel Barnwell · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Commercial Union Insurance · Compania De Navigacion La Flecha v. Brauer · Commercial Molasses Corp. v. New York Tank Barge 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The vessel’s supercargo directed where the lighters were to be placed and their lines were made fast by the vessel’s longshoremen. When the lighters were moored alongside according to the instructions issued by the ship and loading was commenced, the cargo was accepted for transportation and was thereafter subject to the ship’s control since the ship not only determined where and when the loading would take place and the speed of the operation but also was in sole control of the lighters which after the storm came up could not have returned to shore.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.