Shaw v. Lauritzen’s Empirical Analysis
428 F.2d 247 · 1970
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably United States v. Leonard (1975), Thomas D. Joyce v. Atlantic Richfield Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation (1981)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. · George Lusich v. Bloomfield Steamship Company, Bloomfield Steamship Company v. Boland MacHine and Manufacturing Co., Inc. · Ely v. Reading Co. · Gustav Mortensen v. A/s Glittre, and Third-Party v. Federal Paint Co., Third-Party · United States Lines Co. v. Williams
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party has no vested interest in any particular form of instructions; the language of the charge is for the trial court to determine. If, from the entire charge, it appears that the jury has been fairly and adequately instructed, as we find it was, then the requirements of the law are satisfied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If you find [the Stevedore's negligence] was a substantial factor in causing the injury, the shipowner . . . is entitled to recover . . . against the stevedore . . .”
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.