Turner v. Costa Line Cargo Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
744 F.2d 505 · 1984
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Theriot v. Bay Drilling Corp. (1986), Randolph v. Laeisz (1990)
21 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 905
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Scindia Steam Navigation Co. v. De Los Santos · Helaire v. Mobil Oil Co. · Hill v. Texaco, Inc. · Stass v. American Commercial Lines, Inc.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. [if the vessel owner fails] to warn on turning over the ship of hidden defects of which he should have known, [Exception 1] 2. for injury caused by hazards under the control of the ship, [Exception 2] 3. [if the vessel owner fails] to intervene in the stevedore’s operations when he has actual knowledge both of the hazard and that the stevedore, in the exercise of ‘obviously improvident’ judgment, means to work on in the face of it and therefore cannot be relied on to remedy it. [Exception 3],”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'about which he had no duty to inform himself,' [but rather] 'is entitled to rely on the stevedores, and owes no duty to the longshoremen to inspect or supervise the cargo operations.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the owner has a duty to avoid exposing longshoremen to harm 'from hazards under the act or control of the vessel.'”
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.