Jerome Grubart Inc v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company City of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
285 federal appellate · 197 district · 140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,235 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter, Communities for Great Ore. (1995)
285 federal appellate · 197 district · 140 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1333 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367
Relies on Bell v. Hood · Crowell v. Benson · Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc.
Cited together with Sisson v. Ruby · Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Foremost Insurance v. Richardson · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval 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 1,235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial relationship to traditional maritime activity.”
107 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall extend to ... all cases of damage or injury ... caused by a vessel on navigable water.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“so closely related to activity traditionally subject to admiralty law that the reasons for applying special admiralty rules would apply in the suit at hand.”
14 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.