Walston v. Lambertsen’s Empirical Analysis
349 F.2d 660 · 1965
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2018
7 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 Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · Lindgren v. United States · Pacific Tow Boat Co. v. States Marine Corp. · Admiral Towing Company, a Corporation and Walter B. Martinson v. Theo Woolen and Dorothy E. Cone · Roth v. Bird
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the admiralty proceeding in which a shipowner seeks to exonerate himself from liability or to limit his liability, the burden of proving negligence or unseaworthiness rests upon the claimant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[fjindings of lack of negligence and of seaworthiness [are] not clearly erroneous . because affirmative evidence supports the findings [and] because sufficient evidence to the contrary has not been presented by the one upon whom rests the burden of proof.”
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.