International Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty’s Empirical Analysis
272 U.S. 50 · 1926
Citation profile
205 federal appellate · 95 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 626 later decisions (91 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki (1946), Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn (1953)
205 federal appellate · 95 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 20 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.
Relationships
Relies on Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Atlantic Transport Company of West Virginia v. Frank Imbrovek · Haverty v. International Stevedoring Co. · Cassil v. United States Emergency Fleet 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 626 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a maritime service formerly rendered by the ship's crew.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the course of his employment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is true that for most purposes, as the word is commonly used, stevedores are not ‘ seamen.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warner v. Goltra
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.