Garrett v. Co’s Empirical Analysis
317 U.S. 239 · 1942
Citation profile
443 federal appellate · 50 district · 227 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,091 later decisions (58 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki (1946), Guaranty Trust Co. v. York (1945)
443 federal appellate · 50 district · 227 state decisions — followed in 31 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · The Osceola · Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Panama Co v. Johnson
Cited together with Garrett v. Moore-McCormack Co. · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Erie Co v. Tompkins
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 1,091 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The analogy ... between seamen's contracts and those of fiduciaries and beneficiaries remains, under the prevailing rule treating seamen as wards of admiralty, a close one.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]dmiralty courts, when invoked to protect rights rooted in state law, endeavor to determine the issues in accordance with the substantive law of the State.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he burden of proof ... [is] part of the very substance of [the plaintiff's] claim and cannot be considered a mere incident of a form of procedure”
8 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.