Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. v. McMahon’s Empirical Analysis
235 F.2d 142 · 1956
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2010 · most notably Leather's Best, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross v. S.S. Mormaclynx, Defendants-Appellants-Appellees (1971), British Transport Commission v. United States (1957)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Just v. Chambers · Chicago Ry Co v. Schendel Same · Lindgren v. United States · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Craft · Chicago Co v. Wells-Dickey 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“approach to modern admiralty as to modern civil procedure should be to permit convenient practice where we know of no authority that forbids.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.