Roper v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 17 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 222 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Guzman v. Pichirilo (1962), Stewart v. Dutra Construction Co. (2005)
103 federal appellate · 17 district · 20 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
reviewedRoper v. United States (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on West v. United States · Desper v. Starved Rock Ferry Co. · Butler v. Whiteman · Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes 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 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test for determining whether a vessel is in navigation is the 'status of the ship' . . . . This is a question of fact, . . . and consequently reversible only upon a showing of clear error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The view that a vessel not in navigation extends no warranty has often been expressed in the more familiar context of to whom does the warranty extend. E. g., Union Carbide Corp. v. Goett, 4 Cir., 1958, 256 F.2d 449 . Implicit within such cases is the reasoning that those working on vessels not in navigation are not seamen (or doing seamen's work) and consequently not among those employees protected by the warranty of seaworthiness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““The test for determining whether a vessel is in navigation is the ‘status of the ship.’ This is a question of fact, and consequently reversible only upon a showing of clear error. * * * ****** “Since we are unwilling to upset the trial court's factual determination that the S.S. Harry Lane was not a vessel in navigation, it follows that there was no warranty of the ship’s seaworthiness”.”
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.