William H. Jefferson v. Taiyo Katun, K. K.’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.2d 582 · 1962
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably Johnson v. Bryant (1982), United States Lines Co. v. Williams (1966)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. · Beard v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will be a rare case where the issue of unseaworthiness as the proximate cause of an injury is to be resolved for or against a shipowner as a matter of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where there is a view of the case that makes the jury's answers to special interrogatories consistent, they must be resolved that way. For a search of one possible view of the case which will make the jury's finding inconsistent results in a collision with the Seventh Amendment.”
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.