Verdin v. C & B Boat Co.’s Empirical Analysis
860 F.2d 150 · 1988
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably North Alamo Water Supply Corporation v. City of San Juan Texas (1996), Brister v. A.W.I., Inc. (1991)
28 federal appellate · 8 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Singleton v. Wulff · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The liability of the owner of any vessel ... for any loss, damage, or injury by collision ... incurred, without the privity or knowledge of such owner or owners, shall not ... exceed the amount or value of the interest of such owner in such vessel, and her freight then pending.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have held on numerous occasions that awards of prejudgment interest on future damages are not available for the common-sense reason that those damages compensate future harm for which no interest could possibly have accrued before trial. (emphasis in the original).”
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.