Peter v. Arrien’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2019
11 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 903 · 33 U.S.C. § 904
Relies on Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Davis v. Department of Labor & Industries · O'Keeffe v. Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates, Inc. · Calbeck v. Travelers Insurance Co. · Parker v. Motor Boat Sales, 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“solely to provide access toward the middle of the river and it was to be dismantled as soon as the demolition was completed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) Compensation shall be payable under this chapter in respect of disability or death of an employee, but only if the disability or death results from an injury occurring upon the navigable waters of the United States (including any dry dock) and if recovery for the disability or death through workmen’s compensation proceedings may not validly be provided by State law. . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the case of an employer who is a subcontractor, the contractor shall be liable for and shall secure the payment of such compensation to employees of the subcontractor unless the subcontractor has secured such payment.”
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.