Fanetti v. Hellenic Lines Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
678 F.2d 424 · 1982
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Bergen Pg v. F/v St Patrick (1987), Air Crash Disaster Near Chicago Illinois on May 25 1979 American Airlines Inc (1983)
13 federal appellate · 4 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 33 U.S.C. § 905 · 43 U.S.C. § 1331 (Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006)
Relies on Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Scindia Steam Navigation Co. v. De Los Santos · Gulf Offshore Company v. Mobil Oil Corporation · Braunfeld v. Gibbons · 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he bill provides in the case of a longshoreman who is employed directly by the vessel there will be no action for damages if the injury was caused by the negligence of persons engaged in performing longshoring services.... The Committee's intent is that the same principles should apply in determining liability of the vessel which employs its own longshoremen ... as apply when an independent contractor employs such persons.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[R]equiring trial judges to give juries instructions about the shipowner's right to rely upon an expert contractor who, in fact, was not there ... is schizophrenic and the predictable effect upon the jury one of bafflement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The amount of money that a wage earner is able to contribute to the support of his family is unquestionably affected by the amount of the tax he must pay to the Federal Government. It is his aftertax income, rather than his gross income before taxes, that provides the only realistic measure of his ability to support his family. It follows inexorably that the wage earner's income tax is a relevant factor in calculating the monetary loss suffered by his dependents when he dies.”
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.