276 F. Supp. 163 - Petition of Den Norske Amerikalinje A/S’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably United States Steel Corp. v. Lamp (1970), Guevara v. Maritime Overseas Corp. (1995)
14 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 59 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · Vaughan v. Atkinson · The Harrisburg · Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc. · Kernan v. American Dredging Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the maritime field, therefore, there must be abject obedience to orders from the moment the seaman enters service until his discharge. It is settled that this condition of the seaman’s contract is a singular exception to the Thirteenth Amendment’s prohibition against involuntary servitude.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“punitive damages have never been visited upon a tortfeasor in an admiralty proceeding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in accord with traditional concepts of the law of damages.”
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.