Watson v. Gulf Stevedore Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
374 F.2d 946 · 1967
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1980
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 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. · Crumady v. the Joachim Hendrik Fisser · Reed v. Steamship Yaka · Italia Societa Azioni Navigazione v. Oregon Stevedoring Company
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The liability of an employer [for the compensation] prescribed in section 904 of this title shall be exclusive and in place of all other liability of such employer to the employee * * * at law or in admiralty on account of such injury or death. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garibay v. Decker
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.