Pacific Co v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
278 U.S. 130 · 1928
Citation profile
222 federal appellate · 57 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 573 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn (1953), Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. (1960)
222 federal appellate · 57 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 11 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 The Osceola · Baltimore Co v. Phillips · Cohens v. Virginia · Panama Co v. Johnson · Cohens v. Virginia
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 573 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right to maintenance, cure and wages, implied in law as a contractual obligation arising out of the nature of the employment, is independent of the right to indemnity or compensatory damages for an injury caused by negligence; and these two rights are consistent and cumulative”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oskar Tiedemann and Company Ss Elna II 15203 15293 15280 · Petition of Oskar Tiedemann and Company, for Exoneration From or Limitation of Liability as Owners of the S.S. Elna Ii. Oskar Tiedemann and Company, in No. 15203. United States of America, in No. 15293. Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc., in No. 15280“That the vessel and her owner are, both by English and American law, liable to an indemnity for injuries received by seamen in consequence of the unseaworthiness of the ship, or a failure to supply and keep in order the proper appliances appurtenant to the ship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he right under the new [Jones Act] rule [allows a seaman] to recover compensatory damages for injuries caused by negligence”
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.