Peters v. North River Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 306 · 1985
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Costa Lines Cargo Services, Inc. (1990), Woods v. Sammisa Co. (1989)
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 · 33 U.S.C. § 905 · 33 U.S.C. § 914 · 33 U.S.C. § 933 · 5 U.S.C. § 8101 (Attendant Allowance Adjustment Act)
Relies on Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. v. Strachan Shipping Co. · Italia Societa Azioni Navigazione v. Oregon Stevedoring Company · Edmonds v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he compensation lien, however, attaches to the worker's net recovery. If the worker's recovery is insufficient to cover both the worker's litigation expenses and the compensation lien, therefore, the litigation expenses must be paid first.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ODECO "). The ODECO rule has been consistently followed. See, e.g., Foreman v. Exxon Corp., 770 F.2d 490 (5th Cir.1985); Peters v. North River Ins. Co., 764 F.2d 306 , 310 (5th Cir.1985) ("The [LHWCA] ... den[ies] third parties a right of contribution or indemnity from the employer even when the employer is at fault”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'exclusive control of the action' remains with the worker....”
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.