Powell v. Offshore Navigation, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.2d 1063 · 1981
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Trentacosta v. Frontier Pacific Aircraft Industries, Inc. (1987), Lowe v. Ingalls Shipbuilding, A Division of Litton Systems, Inc. (1984)
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1333 · 28 U.S.C. § 1391
Relies on Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. · Strawbridge v. Curtiss
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“State law may . . . supplement federal maritime law, as in the exercise of its police powers or in the additional maritime tort remedy; state law may not, however, conflict with federal maritime law, as it would be redefining the requirements or limits of a remedy available at admiralty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] maritime claim brought in the common law state courts .... is governed by the same principles as govern actions brought at admiralty, i.e., by federal maritime law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ I]n rem actions involving maritime liens fall within the exclusive admiralty jurisdiction of the federal district courts.”
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.