Harmon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.2d 372 · 1932
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Garrett v. Co (1942), Garrett v. Moore-McCormack Co. (1942)
33 federal appellate · 5 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 Union Pac Ry Co v. Harris · Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Wilcox · The Henry S. Grove · Pfeil v. United States
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.
“One who claims that a seaman has signed away his rights to what in law is due him must be prepared to take the burden of sustaining the release as fairly made with and fully comprehended by the seaman.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely because of the fact that plaintiff may have received considerably less for his injuries than at the end of a controversy he might reasonably have hoped to obtain”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This rule of course is most rigidly applied to clauses in shipping articles purporting to release rights which seamen have, and to releases of claims for wages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Texaco Inc.
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.