Metropolitan Stevedore Co. v. Rambo’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
117 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 250 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably United States v. O'Hagan (1997), Rothgery v. Gillespie County (2008)
117 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 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 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 908 · 33 U.S.C. § 910 · 33 U.S.C. § 913 · 33 U.S.C. § 914 · 33 U.S.C. § 919 · 33 U.S.C. § 921
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston
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 250 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The burden of showing something by a preponderance of the evidence ... simply requires the trier of fact to believe that the existence of a fact is more probable than its nonexistence ....'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is significant potential that the injury will cause diminished capacity under future conditions”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“brings at least some added persuasive force to our conclusion.”
5 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.