Stechcon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.2d 792 · 1971
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2015
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Boudoin v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. · Consolidated Gas Electric Light & Power Co. v. Pennsylvania Water & Power Co. · Keen v. Overseas Tankship Corp. · Connolly v. Farrell Lines, Inc. · Boorus v. West Coast Trans-Oceanic Steamship Line
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.
“evidence in the record that would warrant the trier of fact to conclude, with reason, that [Nyugen] constituted a foreseeable risk to [Lameire] against which [the defendants] had the duty to guard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Was the assault within the usual and customary standards of the calling? Or is it a case of a seaman with a wicked disposition, a propensity to evil conduct, a savage and vicious nature?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“equal in disposition and seamanship to the ordinary men in the calling.'”
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.