Justino Lugo Vega v. The Steamship Malula, Her Engines, Boilers, Etc., and Oscar G. Abello Ameller’s Empirical Analysis
291 F.2d 415 · 1961
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Pure Oil Company v. Tracy L. Snipes (1961), Oliveras v. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc. (1970)
67 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 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 Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Crumady v. the Joachim Hendrik Fisser · Alaska Steamship Co. v. Petterson
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The event occurred. The block failed. The block failed while being used for a normal expected purpose. That is, and has been, at least since Sierazki [sic] in 1947, a classic case of patent unseaworthiness. The passage of time has but made the warranty of seaworthiness more awesome as it extends to gear used without regard to ownership and to transitory conditions. [Citations]. How the pin happened to slip out is of no real legal significance. No matter how much care was used either by the owner, the ship's crew, or the deceased crew member immediately responsible for its maintenance, the failure of the block under normal expected use visits on the vessel owner an unremitting liability based on the breach of the absolute duty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * all have been too mechanically preoccupied with the element of delay in the sense of time beyond * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““From the [longshoreman’s] approach this is the way the choice-of-laws maze runs. The libel having been instituted in Florida and there being no applicable federal statute, the statutes of limitations in that state will determine whether the action is time-barred.””
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.