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204 F. 764 · 1913
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1963
8 federal appellate · 4 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Osceola · Clowes v. The Frank & Willie · The Edith Godden
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the law of the sea that vessel owners are liable for wages, maintenance, and expenses of cure of a seaman injured in the service of the ship, except as a result of his own willful misconduct. There has been gradually added to this well-defined relation, either by statute or by judicial decisions, an obligation of the owners to give 'the seaman indemnity for injuries resulting from unseaworthiness of the vessel or her. equipment. The final utterance of the .‘Supreme Court on the relation of seamen and owners is the case of The Osceola, 189 U.S. 158 , 23 S.Ct. 483 , 47 L.Ed. 760 (1902). It is inconsistent with many prior and some subsequent decisions. * * * The omission of the libelant’s superiors to tell him where to stand when filling the cup, or to warn him not to straddle the shaft, if negligence, was negligence of fellow servants, for which the owners are not responsible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marshall v. Manese
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.