Caradelis v. Refineria Panama, S. A.’s Empirical Analysis
384 F.2d 589 · 1967
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably In re Saco Local Development Corp. (1983), Nash v. Estelle (1979)
61 federal appellate · 2 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 McAllister v. United States · In Re Disbarment of Isserman · Coryell v. Phipps · McGourkey v. Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Co. · Reid v. Fargo
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'only when nothing save ministerial tasks relating to computation of damages remains can a mere determination of liability be construed as a [28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]his circuit as well as others has now fully accepted the proposition that the ‘clearly erroneous’ standard set out in Fed.R.Civ.P. 52 applies to admiralty actions. We have also consistently recognized that when some or all of the evidence upon which the findings are based was not testimony of ‘live’ witnesses produced before the district court, the ‘clearly erroneous’ standard is somewhat modified. * * * We feel that while we may not consider the evidence de novo and must give considerable weight to the findings of the district court, we may reexamine the evidence more closely than if the clearly erroneous rule was fully applicable * ⅜ *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Maxwell v. Olsen“the appellate court is in as good a position as the lower court to evaluate the testimony that is crucial to the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jurek v. Estelle
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.