Smith v. Service Contracting, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 1980
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 28 U.S.C. § 1333 · 43 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on Engel v. Davenport · Red Cross Line v. Atlantic Fruit Co. · Panama Co v. Vasquez · Frank Ursich v. Manuel D. Da Rosa · Smith v. Service Contracting, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43 U.S.C.A. § 1333 (c) (1), specifically excludes members of a crew of a vessel from coverage. Gravois , the case relied on by appellees, is not apposite here. For as the majority opinion carefully points out, the Jones Act was not there applicable. The person for whose death recovery was sought in that suit was not a seaman; he was a member of an installation crew working on a fixed structure in the Gulf of Mexico belonging to his employer, Freeport Sulphur Company. Here the Jones Act, which affords recovery for injury to seamen, and the `saving to suitors' clause of 28 U.S.C.A. § 1333 (1), which provides for exclusive jurisdiction in the District Courts of the United States in civil cases of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction `* * * saving to suitors in all cases all other remedies to which they are otherwise entitled', are applicable. And, the plaintiff having elected to pursue his remedy in the Courts of the State of Louisiana, those courts do have jurisdiction. [Citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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