Platoro Ltd. v. Unidentified Remains of a Vessel, Her Cargo, Apparel, Tackle, & Furniture, in a Cause of Salvage, Civil & Maritime’s Empirical Analysis
695 F.2d 893 · 1983
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Todd Shipyards Corporation v. Auto Transportation Sa (1985), Reeled Tubing, Inc. v. M/v Chad G, Her Engines, Etc., in Rem, Guilbeau Marine, Inc., Grand Isle Shipyard, Inc., in Personam (1986)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 Edelman v. Jordan · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Boeing Co. v. Van Gemert
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the degree of danger from which the ship was rescued; (b) the post-casualty value of the property saved; (c) the risk incurred in saving the property from impending peril; (d) the promptitude, skill and energy displayed in rendering the service and salving the property; (e) the value of the property employed by the salvors and the danger to which it was exposed; (f) the costs in terms of labor and materials expended by the salvors in rendering the salvage service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] salvage award may be denied if the salvor forces its services on a vessel despite rejection of them by a person with authority over the vessel,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We cannot find a case where the salvage award was expressed in terms of the res rather than in dollars”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 01-2227
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.