Turner v. Japan Lines, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
702 F.2d 752 · 1983
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2011 · most notably Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno (1990), Western Pacific Fisheries, Inc. v. SS President Grant (1984)
44 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1961
Relies on Briggs v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Robert Herd Company v. Krawill Machinery Corporation · Gorsalitz v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. · National Bank of the Commonwealth v. Mechanics' National Bank · Twin City Sportservice, Inc. v. Charles O. Finley & Co.
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he purpose of awarding interest to a party recovering a money judgment is, of course, to compensate the wronged person for being deprived of the monetary value of the loss from the time of the loss to the payment of the money judgment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be allowed on any money judgment in a civil case recovered in a district court,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“but a delay occurs between the date of that ascertainment and the date of the eventual entry of judgment based on that ascertainment, the result [under section 1961] should not differ.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.