Flowers v. Savannah Machine & Foundry Co.’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.2d 135 · 1962
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably United States v. Kolesar (1963), Watz v. Zapata Off-Shore Co. (1970)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 · Kermarec v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique · Baltimore Co v. Phillips · Halcyon Lines v. Haenn Ship Ceiling & Refitting Corp.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . .we conclude that the Jones Act three-year period should be employed . . . Of course it must be recognized at the outset that this does not displace the doctrine of laches. What and all that is done is that in the place of the local statutory period, there is substituted as the analogous reference guide the Jones Act three-year period. But while this does not eliminate the unavoidable problems for case by case adjudication and, moreover, does not achieve the millennium of certitude in this troublesome amphibious area, we think that adoption of the federal statute is both workable and sensible.” 310 F.2d at 137 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether laches exists is ordinarily presented when the delay in filing exceeds the analogous statutory limitation period. We do not undertake to determine whether, or under what circumstances, delay short of the statutory period might properly amount to laches.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"What is left for local law? There is nothing left save an occasional use as a reference guide in determining whether the maritime principle of laches bars the suit. * * *"”
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.