Waterman Steamship Corp. v. David’s Empirical Analysis
353 F.2d 660 · 1965
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently June 1982 · most notably Grigsby v. Coastal Marine Service of Texas, Inc. (1969), Todd Shipyards Corporation v. Turbine Service Inc Sa Turbine Service Inc (1982)
57 federal appellate · 4 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 Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Taylor v. Illinois · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Gallick v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absent conduct on (the owner's) part sufficient to preclude recovery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This obligation is not a quasi-contraetual obligation implied in law or arising out of a noncontractual relationship. It is of the essence of petitioner's stevedoring contract. It is petitioner’s warranty of workmanlike service that is comparable to a manufacturer’s warranty of the soundness of its manufactured product. The shipowner’s action is not changed from one for a breach of contract to one for a tort simply because recovery may turn upon the standard of the performance of petitioner’s stevedoring service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“warranty of workmanlike service does not put him under the duty to discover defects in equipment furnished him by the shipowner.”
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.