O'Donnell v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.’s Empirical Analysis
318 U.S. 36 · 1943
Citation profile
272 federal appellate · 31 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 596 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki (1946), Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland (1972)
272 federal appellate · 31 district · 67 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
reviewedO'Donnell v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on The Osceola · Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Panama Co v. Johnson · Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor · 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 596 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of recovery in the Jones Act is given to the seaman as such, and, as in the case of maintenance and cure, the admiralty jurisdiction over the suit depends not on the place where the injury is inflicted but on the nature of the service and its relationship to the operation of the vessel plying in navigable waters.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the course of his employment may, at his election, maintain an action for damages at law”
2 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.