Branch v. Schumann’s Empirical Analysis
445 F.2d 175 · 1971
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Austin v. Unarco Industries, Inc. (1983), Gay v. Ocean Transport & Trading, Ltd. (1977)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Kermarec v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique · The Plymouth · Richmond Co v. Powers
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“once admiralty jurisdiction is established, then all of the substantive rules and precepts peculiar to the law of the sea become applicable”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“imposes the highest degree of care on an owner-operator of a motorboat,”
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.