Simon Williamson v. Compania Anonima Venezolana De Navigacion (Venezuelan Line), and Westinghouse Electric International Co., Compania Anonima Venezolana De Navigacion (Venezuelan Line), Third-Partyplaintiff-Appellant v. John W. McGrath Corporation and Westinghouse Electric International Co.,third-Party’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 1339 · 1971
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2002
5 federal appellate · 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 Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. · Gutierrez v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · Grunenthal v. Long Island Rail Road · Ferrell v. Dallas Independent School District
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(3) The shipper shall not be responsible for loss or damage sustained by the carrier or the ship arising or resulting from any cause without the act, fault, or neglect of the shipper, his agents, or his servants.””
2 later decisions 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.