The Steel Trader’s Empirical Analysis
275 U.S. 388 · 1928
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2002 · most notably Bankers Trust Co. v. Rhoades (1988), Isthmian Lines, Inc. v. Haire (1964)
34 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States Steel Products Co. v. Adams (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bauman v. Ross · Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. v. Byrne · Calvin v. Huntley · A. W. Duckett & Co. v. United States
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any seaman who has signed an agreement and is afterward discharged before one month's wages are earned, without fault on his part justifying such discharge, and without his consent, shall be entitled to receive in addition to any wages earned, a sum equal in amount to one month's wages as compensation as if it were wages duly earned.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * According to the plain language employed, [section 594] applies where the discharge takes place before the commencement of the voyage or before one month’s wages are earned. Also we think, in the specified circumstances, payment of wages actually earned, with an additional sum equal to one month’s wages, satisfies all liability for breach of the contract of employment by wrongful discharge. * * * w”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to afford seamen a simple, summary method of establishing and enforcing damages”
2 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.