Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
303 U.S. 525 · 1938
Citation profile
533 federal appellate · 106 district · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,282 later decisions (58 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki (1946), Lauritzen v. Larsen (1953)
533 federal appellate · 106 district · 125 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCalmar S. S. Corp. v. Taylor (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on The Osceola · Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc. · Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co. · Pacific Co v. Peterson
Cited together with Farrell v. United States · Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co. · The Osceola · Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc. · Vaughan v. Atkinson
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 1,282 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The seaman’s recovery must therefore be measured in each case by the reasonable cost of that maintenance and cure to which he is entitled at the time of trial, including, in the discretion of the court, such amounts as may be needful in the immediate future for the maintenance and cure of a kind and for a period which can be definitely ascertained.””
46 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.