Herb's Welding, Inc. v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
282 federal appellate · 3 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 504 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Offshore Logistics, Inc. v. Tallentire (1986), Bloate v. United States (2010)
282 federal appellate · 3 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 903 · 43 U.S.C. § 1331 (Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006) · 43 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · United States v. New York Telephone Co. · Rodrigue v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Northeast Marine Terminal Co. v. Caputo · 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 504 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress did not seek to cover all those who breathe salt air.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is nothing inherently maritime about”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Constitution and laws and civil and political jurisdiction of the United States are hereby extended to the subsoil and seabed of the outer Continental Shelf and to all artificial islands, and all installations and other devices permanently or temporarily attached to the seabed, which may be erected thereon for the purpose of exploring for, developing, or producing resources therefrom, or any such installation or other device (other than a ship or vessel) for the purpose of transporting such resources, to the same extent as if the Outer Continental Shelf were an area of exclusive Federal jurisdiction located with a State—”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.