Wiper v. Great Lakes Engineering Works’s Empirical Analysis
340 F.2d 727 · 1965
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Aro Corp. v. Allied Witan Co. (1976), Roth Steel Products v. Sharon Steel Corp. (1983)
37 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Crowell v. Benson · Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Lauritzen v. Larsen · Lavender v. Kurn · Ferguson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Under the allegations of the complaint, defendant’s negligently kept dock resulted in decedent’s death by drowning in navigable waters, and therefore plaintiff contends that the tort should be deemed to have occurred in navigable water. However, docks and wharves are considered as extensions of land, * * *, and therefore the negligently maintained dock which presumably caused the decedent to fall was land, and the decedent was on land at the time he was caused to fall. Thus, the tort was complete before decedent ever touched the water and this being true, the subsequent drowning is significant not to determine the maritime or non-maritime nature of this action but only as it relates to damages, * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absent a maritime status between the parties.”
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.