Olympic Towing Corp. v. Nebel Towing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
419 F.2d 230 · 1969
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Government of the Virgin Islands v. Gereau (1975), Magnolia Marine Transport Co. v. Laplace Towing Corp. (1992)
48 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 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 Just v. Chambers · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Cushing · Butler v. Boston & Savannah Steamship Co. · The "North Star" · Norwich Company v. Wright
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to all of the lawful conditions of the policy or contract and the defenses which could be urged by the insurer to a direct action brought by the insured, provided the terms and conditions of such policy or contract are not in violation of the laws of this State.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““ * * * each person possessing a ‘personal’ defense obtained that defense because the law granted it to all members of his class as a matter of public policy. The personal defense attaches to the status. Hence parents, children, husbands, wives, governmental units, charitable organizations, bankrupts, lunatics, interdicts, vessel owners, and the like possess a defense denied their respective insurers.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Art. 2098. Defenses available to debtors in solido Art. 2098. A codebtor in solido, being sued by the creditor, may plead all the exceptions resulting from the nature of the obligation, and all such as are personal to himself, as well as such are are common to all the codebtors. He can not plead such exceptions as are merely personal to some of the other codebtors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.