Sisson v. Ruby’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
227 federal appellate · 133 district · 165 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,002 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Jerome Grubart Inc v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company City of Chicago (1995), Hertz Corp. v. Friend (2010)
227 federal appellate · 133 district · 165 state decisions — followed in 15 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
reviewedIn re the Complaint of Sisson (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf · Foremost Insurance v. Richardson · Offshore Logistics, Inc. v. Tallentire
Cited together with Foremost Insurance v. Richardson · Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Jerome Grubart Inc v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company City of Chicago · East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. · Kossick v. United Fruit 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 1,002 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the general features of the type of incident involved”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'fundamental interest giving rise to maritime jurisdiction is "the protection of maritime commerce.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“potentially disruptive impact on maritime commerce,”
17 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.