United Brands Co. v. Melson’s Empirical Analysis
594 F.2d 1068 · 1979
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Todd Shipyards Corp. v. Black (1983), Strachan Shipping Co. v. Nash (1986)
45 federal appellate · 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 Douglas v. Alabama · Calbeck v. Travelers Insurance Co. · Berra v. United States · Travelers Insurance v. Cardillo
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the last employer in whose employment an employee was exposed to an injurious stimuli [is] liable for the full amount of the award with no apportionment of damages between successive employers.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nder the [LHWCA], United Brands is fully liable for Melson's injury. Melson's recovery from [an employer covered under state law] is a mere fortuity. To allow United Brands a set-off is to give United Brands a windfall in the amount of Melson's state award.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]ntil Congress is moved by this unusual situation, we think that the solution to this difficult problem is to allow the windfall of double recovery to reside with the injured worker.”
2 later decisions 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.