Gutierrez v. Waterman Steamship Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
481 federal appellate · 103 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,071 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland (1972), County of Oneida New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State New York (1985)
481 federal appellate · 103 district · 62 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
reviewedWaterman Steamship Corp. v. Gutierrez (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc.
Cited together with Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Alaska Steamship Co. v. Petterson · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp.
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 1,071 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States shall extend to and include all cases of damage or injury, to person or property, caused by a vessel on navigable water, notwithstanding that such damage or injury be done or consummated on land.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“things about a ship, whether the hull, the decks, the machinery, the tools furnished, the stowage, or the cargo containers, must be reasonably fit for the purpose for which they are to be used.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“duty to provide a seaworthy ship and gear * * * applies to longshoremen unloading the ship whether they are standing aboard ship or on the pier.”
5 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.