Walker v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
335 F.2d 185 · 1964
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Hercules Carriers, Inc. v. Claimant State of Florida (1985), Steinhort v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1964)
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · McAllister v. United States · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · In Re Disbarment of Isserman · Michalic v. Cleveland Tankers, 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * What is the [gear] to do? What are the hazards, the perils, the forces likely to be incurred,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Seaworthiness, as that term has been defined and redefined, is reasonable fitness to perform or do the work at hand. Saunders v. Pool Shipping Co., 5 Cir., 1956, 235 F.2d 729 , 1956 AMC 1351 ; Ionion Steamship Co. of Athens v. United Distillers of America, Inc., 5 Cir., 1956, 236 F.2d 78 , 1956 AMC 1750 ; Tropical Marine Products, Inc. v. Birmingham Fire Ins. Co., 5 Cir., 1957, 247 F.2d 116 , 1957 AMC 1946 ; Vega v. The Malula, 5 Cir., 1961, 291 F.2d 415 , 1961 AMC 1698 ; Delta Eng’r Corp. v. Scott, 5 Cir., 1963, 322 F.2d 11 ; Texas Manhaden Co. v. Johnson, 5 Cir., 1964, 332 F.2d 527, 528, nn. 1, 2 [No. 20713, May 13, 1964].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he familiar doctrine, so often invoked where vessels sink in calm waters, that sinking (of other failure) under circumstances and conditions which the vessel must reasonably anticipate and overcome is the best proof of, and makes out the classic case of, unseaworthiness.”
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.