White v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.3d 43 · 1995
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Good Wwa v. Ohio Edison Company (1998), Republic of Paraguay v. Allen (1998)
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1333 · 46 U.S.C. § 30101 (Extension of Admiralty Jurisdiction Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Jerome Grubart Inc v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company City of Chicago · Foremost Insurance v. Richardson · Sisson v. Ruby · Brody v. Guercio
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“poses a more than fanciful risk to a variety of activities essential to maritime commerce.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is apparent that an inability safely to avail oneself of the gangway and its appurtenances would greatly inhibit a variety of activities essential to commercial shipping, more specifically loading, resupply, and the coming and going of crew and contractors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“disembarking ... [passenger] was injured by falling from a gangplank leading from the vessel to the dock,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Minott v. Brunello
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.