Strachan Shipping Co. v. Koninklyke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maalschappy, N.V.’s Empirical Analysis
324 F.2d 746 · 1963
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Todd Shipyards Corporation v. Turbine Service Inc Sa Turbine Service Inc (1982), Ruiz v. Shell Oil Co. (1969)
48 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Paliaga v. Luckenbach Steamship Co. · 183 F. Supp. 779 - Gonzales v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company · Caswell v. Koninklyke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maalschappy
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“awarded to the shipowner (the defendant in the tort suit) that part of his attorneys' fees that were incurred in defending against the longshoreman's (plaintiff's) claim, but refused to award any attorneys' fees incurred in 'getting the stevedore into the case and establishing that the stevedore, rather than the shipowner, was responsible.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fully concur(red) in the clear and logical opinion”
1 later decision 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.