F. J. Walker, Limited, Orleans International, Inc. v. The Motor Vessel "Lemoncore," Her Engines, Etc., Defendants’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.2d 1138 · 1977
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Agrico Chemical Company v. M/v Ben W. Martin (Ex: M/v Greenville), Etc., Defendants-Third-Party v. Brent Towing Co., Inc., Third-Party (1981), Tapco Nigeria Ltd. v. M/V Westwind (1983)
23 federal appellate · 2 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 Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. v. Nacirema Operating Co. · Gooding v. United States · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · O'Connell v. Manning
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unload the cargo onto a dock, segregate it by bill of lading and count, put it in a place of rest on the pier so that it is accessible to the consignee, and afford the consignee a reasonable opportunity to come and get it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Obviously, if such breach is not an operative factor in the damages that occur, or if conduct on the part of the shipowner causes the injury ... indemnity should be denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(P)roof of a breach of the warranty of workmanlike performance does not ipso facto establish a right to indemnity by the vessel.”
1 later decision 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.