Cusanelli v. Klaver’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 14 U.S.C. § 827
Relies on Feres v. United States · Lambert Run Coal Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Maryland ex rel. Levin v. United States · Lundberg v. State of New York · Armstrong v. Alabama Power Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any motorboat or yacht, while assigned to authorized Coast Guard duty shall be deemed to be a public vessel of the United States, and within the meaning of section 646 of this title shall be deemed to be a vessel of the Coast Guard.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cusanelli v. Klaver
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.