Moore v. Mp Howlett Inc’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 39 · 1983
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Serbin v. Bora Corp. (1996), Davis v. Portline Transportes Maritime Internacional (1994)
10 federal appellate · 2 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. § 901
Relies on Scindia Steam Navigation Co. v. De Los Santos · Mattivi v. South African Marine Corp. · Napoli v. Transpacific Carriers Corp. · Evans v. Transportacion Maritime Mexicana SS "Campeche" · Esteban Lopez v. A/s D/s Svendborg and D/s of 1912 A/s
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The shipowner is not relieved of liability as a matter of law simply because it relied on the stevedore to correct the condition, Lieggi, 667 F.2d at 328 ; Evans, 639 F.2d at 856-57 , or because it relied on the stevedore’s judgment to proceed with the work in spite of the condition, Lieggi, 667 F.2d at 328 ; Lopez v. A/S D/S Svendborg, 581 F.2d 319, 324 (2d Cir.1978).” At 42.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is fundamental that there may be more than one proximate cause of an injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our Court has formulated a more general principle, applicable not only to the ship’s gear but also to transitory conditions on the ship, that if the shipowner knows of the .dangerous condition and should anticipate that, even if the condition is obvious, the stevedore will not or cannot correct it and the longshoremen mil not or cannot avoid it, the shipowner has a duty to take reasonable steps to eliminate or correct the condition.”
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.