Burrage v. Flota Mercante Grancolombiana, S. A.’s Empirical Analysis
431 F.2d 1229 · 1970
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. v. Nacirema Operating Co. · Magna Oil Corp. v. Bateson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The notion of workmanlike performance certainly encompasses an obligation by the contractor to take notice of those deficiencies and hazards likely to give rise to damage to life, limb, or property and then take requisite action depending on the nature of the relationship of the parties and their contractual obligations, express or implied, either to eliminate or minimize the hazard or to stop work until the situation is corrected.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If — and there cannot be a real if at all— the WWLP [indemnity] motion is an integral part of this court-created maritime law, then a state principle, statutory or Judge-made, which is a bar to effectual enforcement of the maritime right cannot constitutionally be applied since it works material prejudice to the characteristic features of general maritime law and interferes with the proper uniformity of that law contrary to Article 3, § 2 to the Constitution. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision 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.