Adams v. Texaco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 618 · 1981
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Great Lakes Dredge Dock Company v. Tanker Robert Watt Miller Chevron Transport Corporation S/s Robert Watt Miller Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co (1992), Davis v. Odeco, Inc. (1994)
17 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 Vaughan v. Atkinson · Cooper Stevedoring Company Inc v. Fritz Kopke Inc · Tri-State Oil Tool Industries, Inc. v. Delta Marine Drilling Co. · Savoie v. Lafourche Boat Rentals, Inc. · Wisconsin Barge Line, Inc. v. Barge Chem 300
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a concurrently negligent tortfeasor should proportionately contribute to maintenance and cure paid by a negligent shipowner when the latter's negligence only concurrently contributed to the seamen's injury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The issue, then, becomes ... whether [the settling tortfeasor] can secure contribution for the maintenance and cure payments made necessary through both [the other tortfeasor's] and its own negligence”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]mposition of liability on the tortfeasor ... is not too 'indirect' a consequence of his negligence to allow recovery. The shipowner's obligation--imposed by the law itself--is not so unforeseeable by a tortfeasor as to bar recovery.”
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.