Dearborn Marine Service, Inc. v. Chambers & Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Noritake Co. v. M/V Hellenic Champion (1980), Austin v. Unarco Industries, Inc. (1983)
70 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Kermarec v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“DOHSA has been construed to confer admiralty jurisdiction over claims arising out of airplane crashes on the high seas though the negligence alleged to have caused the crash occurred on land.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“beyond those controversies involving the 'special rules governing the obligations and liability of shipowners' 8 which necessitated its formulation and justify its application.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“immediacy of the occurrence and the absence of other evidence ma[d]e too speculative”
2 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.