Crumady v. the Joachim Hendrik Fisser’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
660 federal appellate · 119 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,341 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. (1960), Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. (1962)
660 federal appellate · 119 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCrumady v. Fisser (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · McAllister v. United States · The Osceola
Cited together with Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. v. Nacirema Operating Co. · Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Waterman Steamship Corporation v. Dugan & McNamara Inc
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 1,341 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“brought the unseaworthiness of the vessel into play.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nseaworthiness extends not only to the vessel but to the crew.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Crumady was an employee of a stevedoring company (Nacirema) engaged in transferring a cargo of lumber from the ship Joachim Hen-drik Fisser * * * at Newark, New Jersey. While so engaged, he was injured and brought this admiralty suit by libel in rem against the vessel. The vessel impleaded the stevedore contractor.””
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.