Waterman Steamship Corporation v. Dugan & McNamara Inc’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
271 federal appellate · 40 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 498 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. (1962), Scindia Steam Navigation Co. v. De Los Santos (1981)
271 federal appellate · 40 district · 23 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJasper King v. Waterman Steamship Corporation, and Third-Party Appellant(dugan & McNamara Inc., Third-Party Appellee) (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · The Osceola · MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. v. Nacirema Operating Co. · Crumady v. the Joachim Hendrik Fisser
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 498 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * This undertaking is the stevedore's `warranty of workmanlike service that is comparable to a manufacturer's warranty of the soundness of its manufactured product,' 350 U.S., at 133-134 [76 S.Ct. 232, at 237, 100 L.Ed., at 142], a warranty generally deemed to cover defects not attributable to a manufacturer's negligence. * * *”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * no difference in principle, so far as the stevedore’s duty to indemnify the shipowner is concerned, whether the stevedore is engaged by an operator to whom the owner has chartered the vessel or by the consignee of the cargo. * * * The ship and its owner are equally liable for a breach by the contractor of the owner’s nondelegable duty to provide a seaworthy vessel. * * * The owner, no less than the ship, is the beneficiary of the stevedore’s warranty of workmanlike service.” Id. at 424-425 , 81 S.Ct. at 202 .”
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.