Hill’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Francis v. Franklin · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · Scindia Steam Navigation Co. v. De Los Santos · Edmonds v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique · Lightning Lube, Inc. v. Witco Corp.
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.
“first if avoiding the hazard would be impractical for the longshoremen, or second, if the ship should have known that the longshoremen would confront the hazard.”
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.