Evich v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 256 · 1987
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Miles v. Melrose (1989), Pacific Merchant Shipping Ass'n v. Aubry (1990)
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 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
Relies on Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Eason v. Dandridge · Aetna Life Insurance v. Lavoie · In re the Vessel Marine Sulphur Queen · Robinson v. Pocahontas, 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'better becomes the humane and liberal character of proceedings in admiralty,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'better becomes the humane and liberal character of proceedings in admiralty,' " id. (quoting Moragne, 398 U.S. at 387, 90 S.Ct. at 1780), and "prevents the anomaly of rewarding a petitioner for killing his victim rather than injuring him,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Punitive damages serve the purposes “ ‘of punishing the defendant, of teaching him not to do it again, and of deterring others from following his example.’ ” Protectus Alpha Navigation Co., Ltd. [North Pacific Grain Growers, Inc.], 767 F.2d [1379] at 1385 [ (9th Cir.1985)] (quoting Prosser, The Law of Torts § 2, at 9 (1971)). These purposes support their availability in general maritime law and the trend is to allow such recoveries. 2 M. Norris, The Law of Seaman § 30-41, at 517 (4th ed. 1985); cf. Thyssen, Inc. v. SS FORTUNE STAR, 777 F.2d 57, 62-63 (2d Cir.1985) (not available in contract).”
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.