Port of Boston Marine Terminal Assn. v. Rederiaktiebolaget Transatlantic’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
440 federal appellate · 115 district · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,017 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Bennett v. Spear (1997), Reiter v. Cooper (1993)
440 federal appellate · 115 district · 112 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
reviewedPort of Boston Marine Terminal Ass'n v. Boston Shipping Ass'n (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1336 · 28 U.S.C. § 2342 · 28 U.S.C. § 2344 · 28 U.S.C. § 2348
Relies on Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission · United States v. Western Pacific Railroad · Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company · Far East Conference v. United States · David Muskrat v.
Cited together with Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Bennett v. Spear · Far East Conference v. United States · United States v. Western Pacific Railroad · Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp.
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 1,017 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rights or obligations have been determined,”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When there is a basis for judicial action, independent of agency proceedings, courts may route the threshold decision as to certain issues to the agency charged with primary responsibility for governmental supervision or control of the particular industry or activity involved.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was expected to and did have legal consequences.”
7 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.