Asbestos Corp. v. Compagnie De Navigation Frais-Sinet Et Cyprien Fabre’s Empirical Analysis
480 F.2d 669 · 1973
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Sunkist Growers, Inc. v. Adelaide Shipping Lines, Ltd. (1979), Damodar Bulk Carriers, Ltd. v. Damodar Tanabe (1990)
10 federal appellate ·
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 Brennan v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · New Jersey v. New York · American Tobacco Co. v. The Katingo Hadjipatera · Metropolitan Coal Co. v. Howard · American Tobacco Co. v. the Katingo Hadjipatera
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the carrier shows that the damage was caused by fire, the shipper must prove that the carrier's negligence caused the damage.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[A]n inexcusable condition of unseaworthiness of a vessel, which in fact causes the damage — either by starting a fire or by preventing its extinguishment — will exclude the shipowners from the exemption of the Fire Statute and COGSA.” Id. at 672 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless caused by the actual fault or privity of the carrier.”
3 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.