Chahoc v. Hunt Shipyard’s Empirical Analysis
431 F.2d 576 · 1970
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2005
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Reed v. Steamship Yaka · Tobacco Institute, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · Atkins v. Greenville Shipbuilding Corp. · United States v. Moran Towing & Transportation Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly embraced the proposition that, as a matter of law, a floating dry dock is not a vessel when it is moored and in use as a dry dock.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] floating dry dock [is] not a 'vessel' while moored to the bank and operated as a dry dock.”
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.