404 F. Supp. 75 - Kayfetz v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1991
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 3 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Wolff v. McDonnell · A. T. Brod & Co. v. Jack Perlow and Adele Perlow, Also Known as Adele Wagner · Kelly v. Smith · Moye v. Henderson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the parties were involved in a sporting event at the time of the collision is immaterial, and, in any event, is outweighed by those factors that argue for admiralty jurisdiction. Indeed, this case demonstrates the futility of trying to create a dichotomy between recreational activity and commercial activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]very description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“bear[s] a significant relationship to traditional maritime activity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.