Vancouver Ss Co v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
288 U.S. 445 · 1933
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 18 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. (1959), Davis v. Department of Labor & Industries (1942)
23 federal appellate · 18 district · 11 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
reviewedRice v. Vancouver S. S. Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on T. Smith & Son, Inc. v. Taylor · The Corsair · Needham v. Grand Trunk Railway Co. · De Harn v. the Mexican National Ry. 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he right to recover for death depends upon the law of the place of the act or omission that caused it and not upon that of the place where death occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The blow by the sling was what gave rise to the cause of action. It was given and took effect while deceased was upon the land. It was the sole, immediate and proximate cause of his death. The G. R. Booth, 171 U. S. 450 , 460. The substance and consummation of the occurrence which gave rise to the cause of action took place on land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he substance and consummation of the occurrence which resulted in intestate's death and so gave rise to respondent's cause of action took place of the deck of the ship lying in navigable waters.”
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.