Reed v. Steamship Yaka’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
552 federal appellate · 115 district · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,179 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Italia Societa Azioni Navigazione v. Oregon Stevedoring Company (1964), Edmonds v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (1979)
552 federal appellate · 115 district · 130 state decisions — followed in 19 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
reviewedReed v. Steamship Yaka (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 905 · 33 U.S.C. § 933
Relies on Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad
Cited together with Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Jackson v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc.
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 1,179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be liberally construed in conformance with its purpose, and in a way which avoids harsh and incongruous results.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The liability of an employer prescribed in section 904 of this title shall be exclusive and in place of all other liability of such employer to the employee, his legal representative, husband or wife, parents, dependents, next of kin, and anyone otherwise entitled to recover damages from such employer at law or in admiralty on account of such injury or death * *”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“for many, if not most, purposes [as] the bareboat charterer is to be treated as the owner”
10 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.