Farrell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
336 U.S. 511 · 1949
Citation profile
522 federal appellate · 81 district · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,103 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Lauritzen v. Larsen (1953), Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. (1960)
522 federal appellate · 81 district · 129 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor · Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co. · Hust v. Lines · Jones v. Waterman S. S. Corp.
Cited together with Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor · Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co. · Vaughan v. Atkinson · The Osceola · Warren v. United States
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 1,103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)t has few exceptions or conditions to stir contentions, cause delays and, invite litigations.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The shipowner shall be liable to defray the expense of medical care and maintenance until the sick or injured person has been cured, or until the sickness or incapacity has been declared of a permanent character.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That the duty of the ship to maintain and care for the seaman after the end of the voyage only until he was so far cured as possible, seems to have been the doctrine of the American admiralty courts prior to the adoption of the Convention by Congress, despite occasional ambiguity of language or reservation as to possible situations not before the court. It has been the rule of admiralty courts since the Convention.”
4 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.