Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
573 F.2d 167 · 1978
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 1996 · most notably National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. v. U. S. Department of Labor office of Workers' Compensation Programs (1979), Caldwell v. Ogden Sea Transport, Inc. (1980)
40 federal appellate · 6 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 Northeast Marine Terminal Co. v. Caputo · Pittston Stevedoring Corporation and the Home Insurance Company v. Anthony Dellaventura, and Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor., Northeast Marine Terminal Company, Inc., Employer, and State Insurance Fund, Carrier v. Ralph Caputo, and Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U.S.D.L., Pittston Stevedoring Corporation v. John Scaffidi and Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U.S.D.L., International Terminal Operating Company, Inc., Self-Insured Employer v. Carmelo Blundo, and Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U. S. D. L. · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc. v. Perdue · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not intend to cover employees who are not engaged in loading, unloading, repairing, or building a vessel, just because they are injured in an area adjoining navigable waters used for such activity.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(e)ssential to keeping the shipyard's machinery in working order for the construction of ships ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... (W)e conclude that Congress acted constitutionally when it extended the Act's coverage to an employee maintaining machinery utilized to build ships in a shipyard adjoining navigable waters even though his shop was relatively distant from the shore.”
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.