Nuzzo v. Rederi’s Empirical Analysis
304 F.2d 506 · 1962
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Shenker v. United States (1963), Venable v. A/S Det Forenede Dampskibsselskab (1968)
31 federal appellate · 2 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 Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Salem v. United States Lines Company · Mahnich v. Southern Steamship 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Just as the owner was ‘under a duty only to furnish a vessel and appurtenances reasonably fit for their intended use,’ as was said in Mitchell , so the owner’s duty, with respect to the stowage of the ship, is only to furnish a stowage reasonably fit for its intended purpose. The purpose of stowage, of course, is a disposition of cargo within the vessel which will be reasonably safe and convenient both for carriage at sea and for unloading at the destination”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““What has been said is not to suggest that the owner is obligated to furnish an accident-free ship. The duty is absolute, but it is a duty only to furnish a vessel and appurtenances reasonably fit for their intended use. The standard is not perfection, but reasonable fitness; not a ship that will weather every conceivable storm or withstand every imaginable peril of the sea, but a vessel reasonably suitable for her intended service.””
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.