Crafton v. Tennessee Valley Sand & Gravel Co.’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.2d 1096 · 1969
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2005
11 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 Braen v. Pfeifer Oil Transportation Co. · Wittner v. United States · Magnolia Towing Co. v. Pace
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since recovery under the Jones Act is predicated on the injury taking place `in the course of employment,' the exact place of injury is not controlling. Magnolia Towing Company v. Pace, 5 Cir., 1967, 378 F.2d 12 . The only requirement is that the seaman be `doing the work of his employer pursuant to his employer's orders.' Braen v. Pfeifer Oil Transportation Company, 1959, 361 U.S. 129 , 133, 80 S.Ct. 247, 250, 4 L.Ed.2d 191 * *.”
2 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.