Port Arthur Towing Co. v. John W. Towing, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
42 F.3d 312 · 1995
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Lewis v. Lewis & Clark Marine, Inc. (2001), American States Insurance v. Bailey (1998)
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Granito v. United States · Langnes v. Green · Granito v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But when a shipowner is not exposed to potential liability in excess of [the value of the vessel and its freight], the shipowner's absolute right to limit its liability is not implicated and 'the saving-to-suitors clause dictates that the admiralty court must allow suits pending against the shipowner in a common law forum, in this case the state court, to proceed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the aggregate of the damages being sought by all claimants exceeds the value of the concursus, actions in state court cannot proceed unless all claimants enter into a stipulation that adequately protects the shipowner.... [A] 'claimant' in this context includes a codefendant who is asserting a cross claim for indemnification, costs, and attorneys' fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a trial judge's finding is based on his decision to credit the testimony of one of two or more witnesses, each of whom has told a coherent and facially plausible story that is not contradicted by extrinsic evidence, that finding, if not internally inconsistent, can virtually never be clear error.”
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.