Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
318 U.S. 724 · 1943
Citation profile
535 federal appellate · 108 district · 154 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,265 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki (1946), Lauritzen v. Larsen (1953)
535 federal appellate · 108 district · 154 state decisions — followed in 11 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
reviewedAguilar v. Standard Oil Co. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on The Osceola · Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor · Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc. · O'Donnell v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.
Cited together with Farrell v. United States · Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor · Warren v. United States · Vaughan v. Atkinson · 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 1,265 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in no sense is predicated on the fault or negligence of the shipowner.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the first time [with] the question of the existence and scope of the shipowner's duty when the seaman is injured while on shore leave but without specific chore for the ship.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“combined object of encouraging marine commerce and assuring the well-being of seamen.”
12 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.