Norton v. Warner Co.’s Empirical Analysis
321 U.S. 565 · 1944
Citation profile
186 federal appellate · 48 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 439 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably McDermott International, Inc. v. Wilander (1991), Chandris, Inc. v. Latsis (1995)
186 federal appellate · 48 district · 72 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedWarner Co. v. Norton (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 3 · 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 921A
Relies on Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co. · Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co. · Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart · Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Smith
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 439 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a seaman is a mariner of any degree, one who lives his life upon the sea. It is enough that what he does affects 'the operation and welfare of the ship when she is upon a voyage.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In considering .those provisions of the Act in the Bassett case we held that the District Court was not warranted in setting aside such an order because the court would weigh or appraise the evidence differently. The duty of the District Court, we said, was to give the award effect, ‘if there was evidence to support it.’ 309 U. S. [251] at page 258, 60 S.Ct. [544], 84 L. Ed. 732 . And we stated that the findings of the Deputy Commissioner were conclusive even though the evidence permitted conflicting inferences. 309 U.S. page 260, 60 S.Ct. page 549. Thus it is that the judicial review conferred by § 21(b) does not give authority to the courts to set aside awards because they are deemed to be against the weight of the evidence. More is required. The error must be one of law, such as the misconstruction of a term of the Act.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“embraces individuals who are naturally and primarily on board the vessel to aid in her navigation, but went on to explain that: 17 [N]avigation is not limited to”
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.