Gill v. Hango Ship-Owners/AB’s Empirical Analysis
682 F.2d 1070 · 1982
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Randolph v. Laeisz (1990), Teply v. Mobil Oil Corp. (1988)
19 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 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Scindia Steam Navigation Co. v. De Los Santos · United States v. Bailey · Gay v. Ocean Transport & Trading, Ltd. · Tug Ocean Prince, Inc. v. United States
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.
“Yet it is quite possible, it seems to us, that Seattle’s judgment in this respect was so obviously improvident that Scin-dia, if it knew of the defect and that Seattle was continuing to use it, should have realized the winch presented an unreasonable risk of harm to the longshoremen and that in such circumstances it had a duty to intervene and repair the ship’s winch, (footnote eliminated)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]n expert witness for the plaintiff, ... whose qualifications as an expert [were] not in question, [had] made affidavits to the effect that the rolls of paper could not be unloaded without employing tong-like breakout clamps, so that the use of such clamps was inevitable, and that such clamps were inherently dangerous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“should have intervened to stop the loading operation until it could be done with reasonable safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.