Boudreaux v. American Workover, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
664 F.2d 463 · 1981
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Theriot v. Bay Drilling Corp. (1986), Union Texas Petroleum Corporation v. Plt Engineering Inc Power Well Service Inc (1990)
21 federal appellate ·
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 33 U.S.C. § 902
Relies on Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Northeast Marine Terminal Co. v. Caputo · M. Morrin & Son Co. v. Burgess Construction Co. · Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. v. Smith · Offshore Company and the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York, Appellants v. Johnie M. Robison, Appellee-Appellant. Robison v. Offshore Company and the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is. a major industry with peculiar maritime-related problems,” and, further, that because it is “an industry that provides approximately 40,000 jobs, and untold millions of dollars in revenues and that takes place primarily upon the navigable waters of the United States,” it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether Congress excluded people who would have been covered before the 1972 amendment; that is, workers who are injured on navigable waters as previously defined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“realistically significant relationship to traditional maritime activity involving navigation and commerce on navigable waters,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.