Federal Marine Terminals, Inc. v. Burnside Shipping Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
228 federal appellate · 20 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 495 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Scindia Steam Navigation Co. v. De Los Santos (1981), Allstate Insurance v. Hague (1981)
228 federal appellate · 20 district · 64 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
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. · Rodriguez v. New York · Kermarec v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique · 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 495 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with reasonable safety to persons and property.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the relationship between the employer and third persons as it did in imposing absolute liability between employer and employee. 23 The Supreme Court's interpretation of the LHWCA in Burnside does not control the interpretation we must give the Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act. Moreover, we find a significant difference between the two statutory schemes. The Pennsylvania statute exempts an employer from liability to a”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the duty of exercising due care 'under the circumstances,'”
4 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.