Metropolitan Stevedore Co. v. Rambo’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach (1998), Metropolitan Stevedore Co. v. Rambo (1997)
102 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRambo v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 1 (Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002) · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 903 · 33 U.S.C. § 908 · 33 U.S.C. § 922 · 33 U.S.C. § 939 · 33 U.S.C. § 944
Relies on Pierce v. Underwood · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Central Bank of Denver Na v. First Interstate Bank of Denver Na K · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Brown v. Gardner
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). A change in wage-earning capacity includes”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“). A change in wage-earning capacity includes "a change in [the employee's] physical condition, skill level, or the availability of suitable jobs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[H]igher wages do not necessarily prove an increase in wage-earning capacity.”
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.