Ward v. Union Barge Line Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
443 F.2d 565 · 1971
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011 · most notably Vella v. Ford Motor Co. (1975), Stephen Edynak v. Atlantic Shipping Inc. Cie. Chambon MacLovia S. A. v. Allied Chemical Company, Atlantic Shipping, Inc. (1977)
17 federal appellate · 4 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 Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · The Harrisburg · Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor · Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc. · Farrell v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]o long as palliative treatment to arrest further progress of the disease or to relieve pain is still medically possible, these decisions permit an award of maintenance and cure even when a seaman has become totally and permanently disabled. In the hypothetical context of an illness entirely unrelated to the seaman’s employment, a malignancy for example, the rule on its face seems expansive. Such a result is not, we believe, permitted by the definition of maintenance and cure [adopted by the Supreme Court]____ It may be sound social policy that vessel and cargo be required to insure against the cost of palliative or preventive care and for maintenance of seamen who become permanently disabled or incurably ill while engaged in the service of their vessel. But the Supreme Court has expressly rejected ... such a rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is clear that jurors are not disqualified merely because they have sat in cases involving similar issues.”
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.