Afran Transport Co., as Owner of the S.S. Burgan, Etc., Libelant-Appellant v. The Motor Tanker Bergechief, A/s Sneffon, Claimant-Appellee. A/s Sneffon, as Owner of the Motor Tanker Bergechief, Cross-Libelant-Appellee v. The S.S. Burgan and Afran Transport Co., Cross-Claimant-Respondent-Appellant’s Empirical Analysis
285 F.2d 119 · 1960
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1994 · most notably Moore-M v. Richardson (1961), Independent Bulk Transport, Inc. v. The Vessel "Morania Abaco" (1982)
18 federal appellate ·
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 Davis v. Illinois · Haas v. Palace Hotel Co. · United States v. Petroleum Nav. Co. · Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. v. The Tank Steamship Esso Camden · Afran Transport Co., Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. The Bergechief, Her Engines, Etc., A/s Sneffon, Appellant-Cross-Appellee. A/s Sneffon, Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. The Burgan, Her Engines, Etc., and Afran Transport Company, Appellee-Cross-Appellant
Most-quoted passages
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““But we would not exclude all discretion in the mutual fault collision case; thus if one vessel is grossly at fault the award of interest to the other may ameliorate somewhat the harsh American rule that division of damages must be equal without reference to the degree of fault. Here under the circumstances shown in our opinion in Afran Transport Co. v. The Bergechief, .supra, 2 Cir., 274 F.2d 469 , we think denial of pre-decree interest was right.” Ibid.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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