Madruga v. Superior Court of State of California in and for San Diego County’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
178 federal appellate · 35 district · 144 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 519 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. (1959), Wilburn Boat Company v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Company (1955)
178 federal appellate · 35 district · 144 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
Relationships
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 355 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1333 · 28 U.S.C. § 1347
Relies on The Osceola · Halcyon Lines v. Haenn Ship Ceiling & Refitting Corp. · Garrett v. Co · Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same · Red Cross Line v. Atlantic Fruit 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 519 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“leave[s] state courts 'competent' to adjudicate maritime causes of action in proceedings 'in personam,' that is, where the defendant is a person, not a ship or some other instrument of navigation.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Any civil case of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases all other remedies to which they are otherwise entitled.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“having concurrent jurisdiction, is free to adopt such remedies, and to attach to them such incidents, as it sees fit”
13 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.