Bass v. Phoenix Seadrill/78, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
749 F.2d 1154 · 1985
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably League of United Latin American Citizens, Council No. 4434 v. Clements (1993), 43 Cal. 3d 858 - Abbott Ford, Inc. v. Superior Court (1987)
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
Relies on Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · Cruz v. Hauck · Parham v. Cortese · Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. v. Nacirema Operating 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]eamen ... are wards of admiralty whose rights federal courts are duty-bound to jealously protect.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by entrusting his vessel to a contractor who rendered the vessel unseaworthy, has been subject to absolute liability without directly contributing to the unseaworthy condition that caused the accident.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“public policy favors voluntary settlements which obviate the need for expensive and time-consuming litigation.”
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.