Ocean Marine Ltd. v. United States Lines Co.’s Empirical Analysis
300 F.2d 496 · 1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2006
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 New York & Liverpool United States Mail Steamship Co. v. Rumball · The Johnson · Oceanic Steam Nav. Co. v. The Aurania · Socony Vacuum Transp. Co. v. Gypsum Packet 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not necessary for a collision to be imminent or even probable before the obligation imposed by [the rules] accrues[,] . . . [but] `[t]here is danger or risk of collision whenever it is not clearly safe to go on.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the fact that the vessel under scrutiny did not perceive the need for care matters not at all”
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.