Blankenship v. Ellerman's Wilson Line New York, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
265 F.2d 455 · 1959
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1974 · most notably Peymann v. Perini Corp. (1974), Scott v. Isbrandtsen Co. (1964)
15 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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
Relies on Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · The Osceola · Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co. · Crumady v. the Joachim Hendrik Fisser
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * and the courts have not as yet generally accepted the view that the obligation of seaworthiness has been so extended that a seaman [longshoreman] may now recover damages from the shipowner for injuries caused by the negligence of a stevedoring contractor contemporaneous with the use of seaworthy appliances whereby a condition of unseaworthiness is created. * * *”
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.