Stewart v. Dutra Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
108 federal appellate · 24 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 333 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably 983 So. 2d 84 - Denoux v. Vessel Management Services, Inc. (2008), Morrow v. Balaski (2013)
108 federal appellate · 24 district · 55 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedStewart v. Dutra Construction Co. (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 1 (Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002) · 1 U.S.C. § 3 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 905
Relies on Smith v. United States · The Osceola · Jerome Grubart Inc v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company City of Chicago · McDermott International, Inc. v. Wilander · Chandris, Inc. v. Latsis
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 333 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he question remains in all cases whether the watercraft's use `as a means of transportation on water' is a practical possibility or merely a theoretical one.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] ship and its crew do not move in and out of Jones Act coverage depending on whether the ship is at anchor, docked for loading or unloading, or berthed for minor repairs, in the same way that ships taken permanently out of the water as a practical matter do not remain vessels merely because of the remote possibility that they may one day sail again.”
10 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.