De Zon v. American President Lines, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
318 U.S. 660 · 1943
Citation profile
141 federal appellate · 21 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 390 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Lauritzen v. Larsen (1953), Galloway v. United States (1943)
141 federal appellate · 21 district · 74 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
reviewedDe Zon v. American President Lines, Ltd. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Panama Co v. Johnson · Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor · Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc. · O'Donnell v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. · Jamison v. Encarnacion
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 390 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a duty that no private agreement is competent to abrogate.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all statutes of the United States modifying or extending the common-law right or remedy in cases of personal injury to railway employees.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“duty is not to 'cure' in a literal sense, but to provide care, including nursing and medical attention”); Cabrera Espinal v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., 253 F.3d 629, 631 (11th Cir.2001) (“cure ... covers nursing and medical expenses”); see also Ferrara v. A. & V. Fishing, Inc., 99 F.3d at 454 (cure refers to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.