Webb v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
236 F.2d 90 · 1956
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1998
13 federal appellate ·
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. § 147 · 33 U.S.C. § 151
Relies on McAllister v. United States · The Pennsylvania · In Re Disbarment of Isserman · National Bulk Carriers, Inc. v. United States · General Seafoods Corp. v. J. S. Packard Dredging Corp.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The requirements of The Pennsylvania rule must be strictly enforced for the safety of navigation, but it should not be pressed to such an extreme as to justify a division of damages when the accident was undoubtedly due to the negligence of an offending vessel whose actions could not be anticipated.””
4 later decisions 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.