Flink v. Paladini’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 59 · 1929
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 21 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Dole Food Co. v. Patrickson (2003), Coryell v. Phipps (1943)
37 federal appellate · 21 district · 2 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
reviewedPaladini v. Flink (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on International Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Southern Pacific Co. · Wesley Richardson v. Judson Harmon · Flash v. Conn
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Having no doubt of the comprehensive purpose of Congress we should not be ingenious to interpret the California statute in such a way as to raise questions whether it could be allowed to interfere with the uniformity which has been the dominant requirement for admiralty law. 49 S.Ct. at 256 .”
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.