Italia Societa Azioni Navigazione v. Oregon Stevedoring Company’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
528 federal appellate · 54 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 983 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. (1986), Scindia Steam Navigation Co. v. De Los Santos (1981)
528 federal appellate · 54 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 11 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
reviewedItalia Societa Per Azioni di Navigazione v. Oregon Stevedoring Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901
Relies on Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co.
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 983 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“liability should fall upon the party best situated to adopt preventive measures and thereby to reduce the likelihood of injury.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robert C. Heyman Cornelia J. Heyman, His Wife, Ito Corporation of Baltimore, a Maryland Corporation v. Puerto Rico Marine Management, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation, and 670 Leasing Company, a Delaware Corporation Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority, a Non-Stock Public Corporation of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Primmi Trucking Incorporated Michael Kaminsky, Robert C. Heyman Cornelia J. Heyman, His Wife, Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority, a Non-Stock Public Corporation of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Marine Management, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants v. Ito Corporation of Baltimore, a Maryland Corporation, and 670 Leasing Company, a Delaware Corporation Primmi Trucking Incorporated Michael Kaminsky · Docket No. 99-7550 August Term, 1999“(R) ecovery of contribution between joint tortfeasors and recovery of indemnity proceed on two wholly distinct theories and produce disparate results.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robert C. Heyman Cornelia J. Heyman, His Wife, Ito Corporation of Baltimore, a Maryland Corporation v. Puerto Rico Marine Management, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation, and 670 Leasing Company, a Delaware Corporation Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority, a Non-Stock Public Corporation of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Primmi Trucking Incorporated Michael Kaminsky, Robert C. Heyman Cornelia J. Heyman, His Wife, Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority, a Non-Stock Public Corporation of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Marine Management, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants v. Ito Corporation of Baltimore, a Maryland Corporation, and 670 Leasing Company, a Delaware Corporation Primmi Trucking Incorporated Michael Kaminsky · In re the Complaint of Robbins Maritime, Inc.“the burden ultimately on the company whose default caused the injury,”
8 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.