Beard v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis

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28 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Under the principles above stated, the ‘warranty of workmanlike service to perform the obligations of the contract with reasonable safety’, extends to the handling of the cargo, and thus if it was negligence on Ellerman’s part to permit Beard to work in an unsafe place, it was equally negligent for Atlantic to ‘handle’ the cargo in the unsafe place to work. “It was Atlantic’s conduct in proceeding to unload cargo in an unsafe place to work which ‘called into play’ the unsafe condition which prevailed, and under Crumady v. The Joachim Hendrik Fisser, supra [ 358 U.S. 423 , 79 S.Ct. 445 , 3 L.Ed.2d 473 ] it breached its warranty to Ellerman.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Caputo v. United States Lines Co.

2. “The work of loading and unloading is historically `the work of the ship's service.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ferrante v. Swedish American Lines