Albatross Tanker Corporation, as Owner of Steamship Erna Elizabeth, Libelant-Appellee v. S.S. Amoco Delaware and American Oil Company, American Oil Company, as Owner of the S.S. Amoco Delaware, Libelant-Appellant v. S.S. Erna Elizabeth, Her Engines, Etc., and Albatross Tanker Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
415 F.2d 692 · 1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1988
2 federal appellate ·
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 Merritt, Chapman & Scott Corp. v. Texas Co. · New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, Libelant-Appellee v. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company · Baltimore & O. R. v. City of New York
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the information that could have been reported by a lookout had been seen and heard on [the ship's] bridge in ample time.”
1 later decision 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.