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American Stevedores, Inc. v. Porello’s Empirical Analysis

330 U.S. 446 · 1947

Citation profile

685
cited by 685 later decisions
44
cited 44 times by the Supreme Court
10
states following
April 2025
most recently cited

271 federal appellate · 57 district · 50 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 685 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. (1956), Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. (1962)

271 federal appellate · 57 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 10 states

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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

reviewedPorello v. United States (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Relies on Just v. Chambers · Western Fuel Co. v. Garcia · Atlantic Transport Company of West Virginia v. Frank Imbrovek · The Max Morris

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 685 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “as attest[ing] ... the growing feeling of Congress that the United States should put aside its sovereign armor in cases where federal employees have tortiously caused personal injury or property damage.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Benet v. Hersey · 167 F. Supp. 579 - Bruce v. United States
  2. “—which means a compensation in money for a loss or damage.'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. 352 F. Supp. 931 - Cyclops Corporation v. Home Insurance Company · 103 So. 3d 1 - Jerkins v. Lincoln Electric Co.
  3. “under an award in a compensation order filed by the deputy commissioner.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Pallas Shipping Agency, Ltd. v. Duris · Carey v. Crane Service Co., Inc.

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.