Meyer v. Dollar S. S. Line’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.2d 1002 · 1931
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1964 · most notably Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co. (1943), Barlow v. Pan Atlantic S. S. Corp. (1939)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 The Osceola · Pacific Co v. Peterson · The Bouker No. 2 · The A. Heaton · Peterson v. Pacific Steamship Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An injury suffered or a disease contracted by a sailor is considered to have been ‘in the line of duty’ unless it is actually caused by something for which he is responsible which intervenes between Ms service or performance of duty and the injury or disease. He will be responsible for an intervening cause if (1) it consists of his own wilful misconduct, or (2) it is something which he is doing in pursuance of some private avocation or business, or (3) it is something which grows out of relations unconnected with the service or is not the logical incident or (of) (sic) provable effect of duty in the service.””
1 later decision 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.