Thompson v. Calmar Steamship Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.2d 657 · 1964
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1987 · most notably Waldron v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1967), Feingold v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (1986)
55 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
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 Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · The Osceola · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Alaska Steamship Co. v. Petterson · Gutierrez v. Waterman Steamship Corp.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Plaintiff was not a member of a railroad crew which brought a railroad freight car on to the pier. He was, on the contrary, a member of a longshoremen’s gang engaged in loading a vessel, and in the course of doing so it fell to him to participate in an operation on land, but one intimately a part of the use of the ship’s equipment, i. e. the bull winch and the bull line. * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States shall extend to and include all cases of damage or injury, to person or property, caused by a vessel on navigable water, notwithstanding that such damage or injury be done or consummated on land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The shipowner has a duty not to permit its ship’s unloading activities, which can affect people on the pier, to be carried on in a way that subjects those people in the area of these activities to an unreasonable risk of harm.””
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.