Darwin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 29 U.S.C. § 653 (§ 4 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 903 · 33 U.S.C. § 941
Relies on Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Smith · Rowell v. United States · Shellman v. United States Lines, Inc. · Ramirez v. Toko Kaiun K.K. · Gallardo v. Westfal-Larsen & Co. A/S
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is important to note that adequate workmen’s compensation benefits are not only essential to meeting the needs of the injured employee and his family, but, by assuring that the employer bears the cost of unsafe conditions, serve to strengthen the employer’s incentive to provide the fullest measure of on-the-job safety. This consideration is particularly crucial with respect to high-risk occupations such as those covered by this Act. Longshoring, for example, has an injury frequency rate which is well over four times the average for manufacturing operations. It is the Committee’s view that every appropriate means be applied toward improving the tragic and intolerable conditions which take such a heavy toll upon workers’ lives and bodies, in this industry, and such means clearly include vigorous enforcement of the Maritime Safety Amendments of 1958 and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, as well as a workmen’s compensation system which maximizes industry’s motivation to bring about such an improvement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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