Flunker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 239 · 1975
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably Baker v. Raymond International, Inc. (1981), Burr v. Lichtenheim (1983)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 905
Relies on Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · The Osceola · Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co. · Crumady v. the Joachim Hendrik Fisser
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to place ultimate liability on the party who was truly at fault and who should mend his negligent ways to prevent future injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“often are held vicariously liable for the acts of third persons causing injury to seamen[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The doctrines of maintenance and cure and of unseaworthiness have been developed to give seamen no-fault damage recovery in recognition of the dangerous character of their work and their quasi-captive status during their voyage.”
1 later decision 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.