Hassinger v. Tideland Electric Membership Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
781 F.2d 1022 · 1986
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2009
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1333 · 33 U.S.C. § 407
Relies on Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Barrett v. United States · Wolff v. McDonnell · Griffin v. California · Borax Consolidated, Ltd. v. Los Angeles
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court has held ... that for admiralty jurisdiction to exist in the federal courts the alleged wrong must (1) occur “on or over navigable waters” and (2) “bear a significant relationship to traditional maritime activity.” Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland, 409 U.S. 249 [ 93 S.Ct. 493 , 34 L.Ed.2d 454 ] (1972). These two requirements are known respectively as the “situs” and the “nexus” requirements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in analyzing the relationship a given claim bears to traditional maritime activity: (1) the functions and roles of the parties; (2) the types of vehicles and instrumentalities involved; (3) the causation and type of injury; and (4) traditional concepts of the role of admiralty law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bubla v. Bradshaw“'navigable water' and thus the boundary of admiralty jurisdiction in tidal areas does not ebb and flow with the tide but extends to the mean high water mark at all times.”
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.