Anderson v. Iceland Steamship Co.’s Empirical Analysis
585 F.2d 1142 · 1978
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1994
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · The Osceola · Kermarec v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he stevedore is hired for its expertise in handling cargo, including cargo which arrives from its journey in less than optimal condition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he intent of the 1972 amendments (to the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act) was to abrogate the absolute liability of the vessel. To find liability on the part of the ship, there must be evidence that the ship breached a duty it owed to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“derived from analogies to land-based tort concepts.”
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.