Morton v. Berman Enterprises, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 89 · 1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2017
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Italia Societa Azioni Navigazione v. Oregon Stevedoring Company · Boudoin v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. · Waldron v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. · Oliveras v. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What has been said is not to suggest that the owner is obligated to furnish an accident-free ship. The duty is absolute, but it is a duty only to furnish a vessel and appurtenances reasonably fit for their intended use. The standard is not perfection, but reasonable fitness; not a ship that will weather every conceivable storm or withstand every imaginable peril of the sea, but a vessel reasonably suitable for her intended service. Boudoin v. Lykes Bros. S.S. Co., 348 U.S. 336 [ 75 S.Ct. 382 , 99 L.Ed. 354 ].””
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.