The Texas Company v. Mrs. Josie Kate Gianfala, Widow of Oscar J. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
222 F.2d 382 · 1955
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1999 · most notably Offshore Company and the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York, Appellants v. Johnie M. Robison, Appellee-Appellant. Robison v. Offshore Company and the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York (1959), Senko v. La Crosse Dredging Corporation (1957)
31 federal appellate · 6 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 33 U.S.C. § 901
Relies on Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · Desper v. Starved Rock Ferry Co. · McKie v. Diamond Marine Co. · Gahagan Const. Corp. v. Armao
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. There must be a vessel in navigation. 2. Plaintiff must be employed on the vessel primarily to aid in navigation. 3. Plaintiff must have a more or less permanent connection with the vessel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.