Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation, a Virginia Corporation v. The M/y La Belle Simone, Her Engines, Tackle, Apparel, Boats, Furniture, Etc., in Rem, and Channel Enterprises, Ltd., Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation, a Virginia Corporation v. The M/y La Belle Simone, Her Engines, Tackle, Apparel, Boats, Furniture, Etc., in Rem, and Channel Enterprises, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 1201 · 1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1997
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · McAllister v. United States · United States v. Oregon State Medical Society · In Re Disbarment of Isserman · Wiley v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.'”
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.