Kelly v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
485 F.2d 520 · 1973
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 235 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Jerome Grubart Inc v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company City of Chicago (1995), Foremost Insurance v. Richardson (1982)
127 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 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 Hanna v. Plumer · McAllister v. United States · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc.
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 235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the functions and roles of the parties; the types of vehicles and instrumentalities involved; the causation and the type of injury; and traditional concepts of the role of admiralty law.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“wrong [must] bear a significant relationship to traditional maritime activity.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'has traditionally been concerned with furnishing remedies for those injured while traveling navigable waters,'”
5 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.