Just v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 383 · 1941
Citation profile
293 federal appellate · 106 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 820 later decisions (69 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1942), Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn (1953)
293 federal appellate · 106 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedChambers v. Just (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Simpson v. Shepard · The Harrisburg · Texas Co v. Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks · Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc.
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 820 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With respect to maritime torts we have held that the State may modify or supplement the maritime law by creating liability which a court of admiralty will recognize and enforce when the state action is not hostile to the characteristic features of the maritime law or inconsistent with federal legislation.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] State, in the exercise of its police power, may establish rules applicable on land and water within its limits, even though these rules incidentally affect maritime affairs, provided that the state action ‘does not contravene any acts of Congress, nor work any prejudice to the characteristic features of the maritime law, nor interfere with its proper harmony and uniformity in its international and interstate relations.’”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“broad recognition of the authority of the States to create rights and liabilities with respect to conduct within their borders, when the state action does not run counter to federal laws or the essential features of an exclusive federal jurisdiction.”
6 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.