The Fletero v. Arias’s Empirical Analysis
206 F.2d 267 · 1953
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably Conte v. Flota Mercante Del Estado (1960), Fisher v. Agios Nicolaos V (1980)
27 federal appellate · 6 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 Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Lauritzen v. Larsen · Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co. · Pritchard Ex'X v. Norton · The Belgenland
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We cannot say that there was any abuse of discretion on the part of the lower court in taking and holding jurisdiction of this case. The injury occurred while the ship was tied up in the dock at Norfolk and the injured seaman was in a Norfolk hospital. A survey of the vessel had been made in Norfolk and the survey and other proofs were available there to establish libellant’s cause of action. The injured seaman had been discharged from the vessel without payment of a considerable balance of wages due him; and counsel whom he had employed lived in Norfolk and by their diligence had prepared the case so as to establish his right to recover substantial damages. There is nothing in law or in sound common sense which requires that, in this posture of affairs, the court throw libellant out of court and tell him to start over again in a distant jurisdiction, where counsel who had prepared his case could not appear for him, and where the proofs necessary to establish liability might not be obtainable.” 206 F.2d at 270 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A controversy as to the balance due, if reasonable, might have justified the failure to pay and thus have avoided the penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a persuasive argument for exercising a discretionary jurisdiction to adjudge a controversy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Orgettas v. Crinis
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.