Walker v. Blacksea Steamship Co.’s Empirical Analysis
637 F.2d 287 · 1981
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2012
14 federal appellate · 2 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 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. v. City of Chicago · Italia Societa Azioni Navigazione v. Oregon Stevedoring Company · 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the event of injury to a person covered under this chapter caused by the negligence of a vessel, then such person, or anyone otherwise entitled to recover damages by reason thereof, may bring an action against such vessel as a third party in accordance with the provisions of section 933 of this title, and the employer shall not be liable to the vessel for such damages directly or indirectly and any agreements or warranties to the contrary shall be void. If such person was employed by the vessel to provide ste-vedoring services, no such action shall be permitted if the injury was caused by the negligence of persons engaged in providing stevedoring services to the vessel.” Accordingly, a vessel can only be liable for”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In passing the 1972 amendments, congress specifically stated that `nothing in this bill is intended to derogate from the vessel's responsibility to take appropriate corrective action where it knows or should have known about a dangerous condition.' 1972 House Report at 4704.”
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.