Sun Ship, Inc. v. Pennsylvania’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 20 district · 276 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 526 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Yamaha Motor Corp., USA v. Calhoun (1996), Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Perini North River Associates (1983)
137 federal appellate · 20 district · 276 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 903 · 33 U.S.C. § 905
Relies on Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Northeast Marine Terminal Co. v. Caputo · Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart · Lewis v. United States · Davis v. Department of Labor & Industries
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 526 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ompensation shall be payable [for an injury] ... occurring upon the navigable waters of the United States ... if recovery ... through workmen's compensation proceedings may not validly be provided by State law.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage“exclusive and in place of all other liability.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he 1972 extension of federal jurisdiction supplements, rather than supplants, state compensation law.”
16 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.