Tug Ocean Prince, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
584 F.2d 1151 · 1978
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 16 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably In re Oil Spill by the Amoco Cadiz off the Coast of France on March 16, 1978 (1992), 572 F. Supp. 802 - United States v. Chem-Dyne Corp. (1983)
53 federal appellate · 16 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 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1321 · 33 U.S.C. § 466
Relies on United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · The Pennsylvania · Rodriquez v. United States · Boudoin v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is the owner's duty to use due and proper care to provide a competent master and crew and to see that the ship is seaworthy; any loss occurring by reason of fault or neglect in these particulars is within his privity. ..... Seaworthiness is a relative term depending upon its application to the type of vessel and the nature of the voyage. The general rule is that the vessel must be staunch, strong, well equipped for the intended voyage and manned by a competent and skillful master of sound judgment and discretion. The burden to prove seaworthiness and the exercise of due diligence to make the ship seaworthy is upon the vessel owner or operator."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“notwithstanding any other provision of law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is, rather, the combination of factors which together indicate a probable consequence of damage resulting from several failures to act, and by continuing to fail to act in the face of that probability, that indicates a reckless disregard of the consequences. While any one of the faults of Red Star alone, even within privity, may not constitute 'willful misconduct,' on the entire record the various inactions and gross disregard of the potential harm amount, in our opinion, to willful misconduct within the meaning of the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.