Captain Tom Barber v. The Motor Vessel "Blue Cat", a 32' Catamaran, Her Engines, Apparel, Tackle and Equipment’s Empirical Analysis
372 F.2d 626 · 1967
Citation profile
124 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Sutton v. Duke (1970), Jenkins v. United Gas Corp. (1968)
124 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 Conley v. Gibson · Braunfeld v. Gibbons · The John G. Stevens · Marroso v. United States · Brunswick Corp. v. Vineberg
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dismissal of a claim . . . on the basis of the barebone pleadings is a precarious one with a high mortality rate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Trial Court [has] forgot[ten] the lesson so often brought home by us that at this day and time dismissal of a claim— land-based, waterborne, amphibious, equitable, legal, maritime, or an ambiguous, amphibious mixture of all of them, on the basis of the barebone pleadings is a precarious one with a high mortality rate.”
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.