Hastings v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
340 F.2d 910 · 1965
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland (1972), Rodrigue v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1969)
31 federal appellate · 2 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 The Plymouth · T. Smith & Son, Inc. v. Taylor · Cleveland Terminal Valley Railroad Company v. Cleveland Steamship Company · The Blackheath · American Export Lines, Inc. v. John Revel, Whitehall Terminal Corporation v. United States of America, American Export Lines, Inc., and John Revel, and American Export Lines, Inc., Cross-Appellant v. United States of America and Whitehall Terminal Corporation, Cross-Appellees
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(t)o come within the land extension rule, of course, the structure must be firmly attached to the land. A vessel moored to a dock does not become an extension of the land nor do other structures secured to the shore by cables, or other temporary means.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that the libelant's feet were awash, when he slipped and fell on the ramp, does not alter the nature and character of the ramp or enlarge Admiralty's jurisdiction to award damages for injuries occurring upon it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether, at the time the injury was sustained, [libellant] ... was landward or seaward of the actual edge of the water, his rights should be the same, and they should be determinable in the same court.”
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.