Northeast Marine Terminal Co. v. Caputo’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
692 federal appellate · 24 district · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,124 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2019 · most notably Estate of Cowart v. Nicklos Drilling Co. (1992), Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Greenwich Collieries (1994)
692 federal appellate · 24 district · 113 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 903 · 33 U.S.C. § 919 · 33 U.S.C. § 921
Relies on Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart
Cited together with Pfeiffer Company Inc v. Ford · Herb's Welding, Inc. v. Gray · Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Perini North River Associates · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Schwalb
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 1,124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The language of the 1972 Amendments is broad and suggests that we should take an expansive view of the extended coverage.”
101 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“14 any longshoreman or other person engaged in longshoring operations, and any harbor-worker including a ship repairman, shipbuilder, and ship-breaker, but such term does not include-- 15 (A) individuals employed exclusively to perform office clerical, secretarial, security, or data processing work; 16 (B) individuals employed by a club, camp, recreational operation, restaurant, museum, or retail outlet; ... 17 if individuals described in clauses (A) through (F) 6 are subject to coverage under a State workers' compensation law. 18 33 U.S.C. § 902(3). 19 Congress' use of the word”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except as otherwise provided in this section, compensation shall be payable under this chapter in respect of disability or death of an employee, but only if the disability or death results from an injury occurring upon the navigable waters of the United States (including any adjoining pier, wharf, dry dock, terminal, building way, marine railway, or other adjoining area customarily used by an employer in loading, unloading, repairing, dismantling, or building a vessel).”
24 later decisions 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.