Higa v. Transocean Airlines’s Empirical Analysis
230 F.2d 780 · 1955
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1999 · most notably Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland (1972), Pareto v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1998)
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 11 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1345 · 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · The Harrisburg · Panama Co v. Johnson · Western Fuel Co. v. Garcia · United States v. Bank of New York & Trust Co.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a suit for damages in the district courts of the United States, in admiralty,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Mr. Igoe. Does not the gentleman think that he should inform the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ricketts) that this proceeding will be in admiralty and that there will be no jury, so that no Member of the House may have any misunderstanding about it? That question was thrashed out and it was decided best not to incorporate into this bill a jury trial because of the difficulties in admiralty proceedings.’ (Page 4482. Emphasis added.) “ ‘Mr. Moore of Virginia. * * * The purpose of this bill, as I understand it, is to give exclusive jurisdiction to the admiralty courts where the accident occurs on the high seas. “ ‘Mr. Volstead. That is it.’ (Page 4483.) Congressional Record, Volume 59, Part V.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here, however, the Death on the High Seas Act creates the right to recover for wrongful death and designates not only the federal court for its enforcement, but a particular jurisdiction of that court. The right is a matter of federal law where state courts would have no special competence. There is more here than "the grant of jurisdiction, of itself * *" which indicates that jurisdiction was intended to be exclusive.”
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.