69 F. Supp. 755 - Nowery v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 1993 · most notably Central Gulf Steamship Corp. v. Sambula (1968), German v. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. (1948)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co. · O'Donnell v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. · Jamison v. Encarnacion · Alpha Corporation v. Cain · Rolph Navigation & Coal Co. v. Kohilas
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it seems to me that it was the occasion for the seaman’s absence from the vessel— shore leave — which determined that he was on “the shipowner’s business” while he was on premises which had to be traversed in going from or returning to the vessel. That being so, I think that logic compels the conclusion that the seaman should also be considered on “the shipowner’s business” while he is actually enjoying his shore leave. And if, for the purpose of determining the shipowner’s liability for maintenance and cure, the seaman is said to be on “the shipowner’s business” while on shore leave, I can see no valid reason why, for the purpose of determining the shipowner’s liability under the Jones Act, the seaman should not be said to be “in the course of his employment” at the same time. It is simply a question of defining the seaman’s status; and I think that the concepts “on the shipowner’s business,” and “in the course of employment,” as they are applied to the seafaring trade, comprehend identical factual situations.”
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.