South, Inc., as Owner of the Vega, Libellant-Appellant v. Moran Towing and Transportation Co., Inc., Tug Christine Moran, Her Engines, Etc., and Tug Claire A. Moran, Inc., Claimant-Appellee. Moran Towing and Transportation Co., Inc., Cross-Libellant-Appellee v. South, Inc., Cross-Respondent-Appellant’s Empirical Analysis
360 F.2d 1002 · 1966
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2007 · most notably In re the Vessel Marine Sulphur Queen (1972), Hercules, Inc. v. Stevens Shipping Co. (1983)
21 federal appellate · 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 Commercial Molasses Corp. v. New York Tank Barge Corp. · Stevens v. The White City · Metropolitan Coal Co. v. Howard · Sternberg Dredging Co. v. Moran Towing & Transp. 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Neither is it material that the facts of the case, and the causes of the collision, are peculiarly within the knowledge of the respondents. It is alleged in the present case, as one of the inconveniences of the libelant’s situation, that it would be compelled, in order to establish the allegations of the libel, to resort to the testimony of those navigating the respective tugs, and thus call witnesses interested to exonerate the vessel to which they were attached. We are not aware, however, of any ground on which such an inconvenience can affect the rule of law which governs the rights of the parties. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The fact that the tow appeared to be in good order when delivered to the Tug and yet suffered damage before reaching its destination does not in itself raise a presumption of negligence; and this is so even where the tow was, as here, unmanned. Neither the Tug nor its owner is a bailee or an insurer.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“duty to inquire and the quality, kind and scope of [a particular] inspection vary with the circumstances of each case.”
2 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.