John Baizley Iron Works v. Span’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 222 · 1930
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 3 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Davis v. Department of Labor & Industries (1942)
57 federal appellate · 3 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Grant Smith-Porter Ship Co. v. Rohde · Millers' Indemnity Underwriters v. Braud · Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Dahl · Northern Coal & Dock Co. v. Strand
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“material prejudice to the essential features of the general maritime law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““What work has direct relation to navigation or commerce must, of course, be determined in view of surrounding circumstances as cases arise.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Grant Smith-Porter & Co. v. Rohde, supra, claimant when injured was working upon an incompleted vessel — a thing not yet placed into navigation, and which had not become an instrumentality of commerce.”
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.