Bouvier v. Krenz’s Empirical Analysis
702 F.2d 89 · 1983
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Jethro Barrett v. Chevron, U.S.A., Inc., E.B.B. Co., Inc. And Lift Barge, Inc. v. Maryland Casualty Company, Intervenor-Appellant (1986), Gideon v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1985)
40 federal appellate · 2 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 33 U.S.C. § 902
Relies on New York v. Ferber · Tisdale v. United States · Offshore Company and the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York, Appellants v. Johnie M. Robison, Appellee-Appellant. Robison v. Offshore Company and the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York · Davis v. Hill Engineering, Inc. · Gray 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All of these formulations (of the Offshore test) express basically the same idea, and are not to be applied mechanically, but rather used as a guide in weighing the total circumstances of an individual’s employment to determine whether they had sufficient nexus with the navigation of vessels and the perils attendant thereon to implicate the concerns of the Jones Act. See Davis v. Hill Engineering, Inc., 549 F.2d 314 (5th Cir.1977); Brown v. ITT, Rayonier, Inc., 497 F.2d 234 (5th Cir.1974). ( 702 F.2d at 90 ).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is in some cases proper to rule as a matter of law that a worker is not a seaman.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“never ate or slept on board a vessel and ... never went to sea”
2 later decisions 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.