McAleer v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
57 F.3d 109 · 1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2014
5 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 46 U.S.C. § 10101
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · The Osceola · Reed v. Steamship Yaka
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.
“A demise [or bare boat) charterer is "one who contracts for the vessel itself and assumes exclusive possession, control, command and navigation thereof for a specified period," Stephenson v. Star-Kist Caribe, Inc., 598 F.2d 676, 679 (1st Cir.1979), in contrast to a time or voyage charterer who "contracts not for the vessel itself but for a specific service of the vessel, such as carriage of goods, which is rendered by the owner's master and crew," id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[alny seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the course of his employment may, at his election, maintain an action for damages at law.”
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.