Lucien Calhoun’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 208 F. Supp. 2d 470 - Yarchak v. Trek Bicycle Corp. (2002), 778 So. 2d 766 - ACCU FAB & CONST., INC. v. Ladner (2001)
10 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · Arizona v. California · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he thrust of [ Calhoun ] is to argue that considerations of uniformity in federal maritime wrongful death action require only that standards of liability be exclusively determined by federal maritime law and that, once such liability has been shown, there is no antagonism to such a policy in supplementing federal remedies with those available under otherwise applicable state statutes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f we were to adopt the view that the substantive standards by which an admiralty defendant’s liability is adjudged is governed by the law of the state in which the alleged injury occurred, there would be no uniformity in such standards. Indeed, such uniformity concerns informed the Moragne Court’s decision to overrule the Harrisburg.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the place where the injury occurred; the place where the conduct causing the injury occurred; the domicile, residence, nationality, place of incorporation and place of business of the parties; and the place where the relationship, if any, between the parties is centered”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.