Bachtel v. Mammoth Bulk Carriers, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
605 F.2d 438 · 1979
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Kermarec v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique · Vaughan v. Atkinson · Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25 · Shapiro v. United States · Edmonds 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The designing of a 20-30 foot deck load of logs without adequate safeguards at the sides could well have been viewed as evidence of negligence under the law as it existed prior to 1972.... Here, the trial judge did not instruct that Mammoth was negligent as a matter of law in failing to comply with the regulation. He submitted the regulation to the jury, along with all other evidence, so that the members might determine whether Mammoth was guilty of negligence. This would be the proper course to follow under all of the pre-1972 cases on the subject.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]hese procedural steps placed the issue of the sufficiency of the evidence before the court [at the end of the case].”
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.