Chemical Transporter, Inc. v. M. Turecamo, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
290 F.2d 496 · 1961
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably Kinsman Transit Company Steamer Macgilvray Shiras Steamer Michael Tewksbury (1964), Marina Mercante Nicaraguense Sa Motor Vessel El Salvador McAllister Brothers Inc Tug Russell No 18 (1966)
13 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Perseverance · Sternberg Dredging Co. v. Moran Towing & Transp. Co. · The Cornelius Vanderbilt · The Sanday
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the fault of the first vessel appears or should be evident to the second early enough for the second to escape injury to the first vessel and herself, she must do so, if no more is required than a change in the navigation of the second vessel which involves no further burden than inconvenience.”
3 later decisions 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.