Smith v. Lauritzen’s Empirical Analysis
356 F.2d 171 · 1966
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2009
9 federal appellate · 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 Boudoin v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. · Brown v. United States · McNello v. John B. Kelly, Inc. · Jones v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. · Josey v. United States
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus, although it can be said that mere words may be sufficient provocation to signal the start of a longshoremens brawl or fisticuffs, it is not enough when the means of attack is an unmistakebly dangerous or deadly weapon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.