Grigsby v. Coastal Marine Service of Texas, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
412 F.2d 1011 · 1969
Citation profile
173 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. (1970), Usner v. Luckenbach Overseas Corp. (1971)
173 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Vaca v. Sipes · Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · The Osceola
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of all branches of jurisprudence, the admiralty must be the one most hospitable to the impulses of man and law to save life and limb and property.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““His impulsive action in the best tradition of the sea gave him this highly preferred status. Since in doing these humane acts, he was doing that which a seaman responding to the call of the sea would have done, he was, in a very real sense and in the Sieracki- sense, doing the work of a seaman. He can accordingly claim the rights of a vicarious seaman including that of the warranty of seaworthiness.” 412 F.2d at 1022 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“liability for negligent salvage is limited to situations in which the salvor, through want of due care, has worsened the position of the victim.”
2 later decisions 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.