Fernandez v. Chios Shipping Co.’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 145 · 1976
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2012 · most notably McGregor-Doniger Inc. v. Drizzle Inc. (1979), United States v. Carson (1983)
40 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Salem v. United States Lines Company · Gerry v. United States · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · Braunfeld v. Gibbons
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen Clause 8 shifts the responsibility of proper discharge of cargo to the charterer, that responsibility includes whatever damage results from improper discharge, whether to the cargo or to the personnel unloading it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he broad discretion of the trial court to determine the qualifications of witnesses will not be disturbed unless its ruling was 'manifestly erroneous.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“charterers are to load, stow and trim and discharge the cargo at their expense under supervision of the captain ....”
3 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.