Ledoux v. Petroleum Helicopters, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
609 F.2d 824 · 1980
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Smith v. Pan Air Corp. (1982), Tallentire v. Offshore Logistics, Inc. (1985)
15 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Mobil Oil Corporation v. Higginbotham K · Higginbotham v. Mobil Oil Corp. · Thibodaux v. Atlantic Richfield Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“crash of (a) helicopter, while it (is) being used in place of a vessel to ferry personnel and supplies to and from offshore drilling structures, bears the type of significant relationship to traditional maritime activity which is necessary to invoke admiralty jurisdiction.”
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.