Ford v. Wooten’s Empirical Analysis
681 F.2d 712 · 1982
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2019
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet · Mobil Oil Corporation v. Higginbotham K · Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As with the Jones Act, 'supplementation' of DOHSA's pecuniary loss remedy with the Moragne loss-of-society remedy would totally alter the remedial scheme, which already provides a cause of action for death due to negligence.... At least where statutory remedies exist, we deem consistency with the federal remedial schemes to be more important than the somewhat limited loss of uniformity. Therefore, we hold that where a cause of action exists for wrongful death under DOHSA, no additional action exists under general maritime law for wrongful death caused by negligence; ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Moragne did not create or even discuss an action for negligence; it dealt only with death occasioned by unseaworthiness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“which mentioned unseaworthiness but never expressly discussed negligence, pertained only to an unseaworthiness claim.”
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.