Panama Co v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
264 U.S. 375 · 1924
Citation profile
472 federal appellate · 160 district · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,391 later decisions (187 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1998), Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936)
472 federal appellate · 160 district · 170 state decisions — followed in 30 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHanrahan v. Pacific Transport Co. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · The Osceola · Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · United States v. L. Cohen Grocery Co.
Cited together with Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co. · The Osceola · Engel v. Davenport
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 1,391 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jurisdiction in such actions shall be under the court of the district in which the defendant employer resides or in which his principal office is located.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he framers of the Constitution did not contemplate that the maritime law should remain unalterable. . . . When the Constitution was adopted, the existing maritime law became the law of the United States `subject to power in Congress to alter, qualify or supplement as experience or changing conditions might require.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. v. Workers' Compensation Commissioner · In RE: MILLENIUM SEACARRIERS, INC., DEBTOR, UNIVERSAL OIL LTD, LIBERIAN INTERNATIONAL SHIP & CORPORATE REGISTRY, LLC v. ALLFIRST BANK, FORMERLY KNOWN AS FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MARYLAND, FORMERLY KNOWN AS WAYLAND INVESTMENT FUNDS, LLC, ASPIDA TRAVEL, LTD, ASSURANCE FORENINGEN SKULD (GJENSIDIG)—DEN DAN, BREAKBULK MARINE SERVICES, LTD., CANFORNAV, LTD., THE CREW OF THE DEBTOR'S VESSELL DET NORSKE VERITAS FUEL AND MARINE MARKETING, GULF STATES MARINE, INC, IHI MARINE CO., LTD., KENT TRADE & FINANCE, MARITIME TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF RUSSIA, OMNI NAVIGATION, LTD., ORIENT SHIPPING, PACNAV, S.A., PANCOAST TRADING, S.A., TOTAL FINA ELF LUBRIFIANTS, S.A., UNISERVICE MEDITERRA, PRAXIS ENERGY AGENTS S.A., PRAXIS ENERGY AGENTS S.A. v. ALLFIRST BANK, FORMERLY KNOWN AS FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MARYLAND, FORMERLY KNOWN AS WAYLAND INVESTMENTS FUNDS, LLC, MILLENIUM SEACARRIERS, INC., IVY NAVIGATION, LTD., MILLENIUM II, INC., MILLENIUM IV, INC., MILLENIUM V, INC., MILLENIUM VI, INC., MILLENIUM ALEKSANDER, INC., MILLENIUM AMETHYST, INC., MILLENIUM ASSET INC., MILLENIUM BALTIC, INC., ASPIDA TRAVEL, LTD., ASSURANCE FORENINGEN SKULD (GJENSIDIG)—DEN DAN, BREAKBULK MARINE SERVICES, LTD., CANFORNAV, LTD., THE CREW OF THE DEBTOR'S VESSELL DET NORSKE VERITAS FUEL AND MARINE MARKETING, GULF STATES MARINE, INC, IHI MARINE CO., LTD., KENT TRADE & FINANCE, MARITIME TRANSPORT WORKERS, UNION OF RUSSIA, OMNI NAVIGATION, LTD., ORIENT SHIPPING, PACNAV, S.A., PANCOAST TRADING S.A., TOTAL FINA ELF LUBRIFIANTS, S.A., UNISERVICE MEDITERRA
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.