Warner v. Goltra’s Empirical Analysis
293 U.S. 155 · 1934
Citation profile
206 federal appellate · 43 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 506 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably Helvering v. Hallock (1940), Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co. (1944)
206 federal appellate · 43 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901
Relies on Panama Co v. Johnson · Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc. · Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co. · International Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty · Jamison v. Encarnacion
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 506 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he maritime law by inveterate tradition has made the ordinary seaman a member of a favored class.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be read in the light of the mischief to be corrected and the end to be obtained.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the construction of this chapter, every person having the command of any vessel belonging to any citizen of the United States shall be deemed to be the ‘master’ thereof; and every person (apprentices excepted) who shall be employed or engaged to serve in any capacity on board the same shall be deemed and taken to be a ‘seaman’; and the term ‘vessel’ shall be understood to comprehend every description of vessel navigating on any sea or channel, lake or river * *”
6 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.