Kattelman v. Otis Engineering Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2001
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 28 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on Maryland Casualty Co. v. Cushing · American Export Lines, Inc. v. Alvez · Lake Tankers Corp. v. Henn · Ex parte Green · Farrell Lines Inc. v. Jones
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s long as there is a potential set of circumstances in which a shipowner could be held liable in excess of the limitation fund, the reasonable prospect of claims for indemnification [or contribution] should constitute a multiple claimant situation necessitating a concursus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gorman v. Cerasia
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.