DiBenedetto v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2019
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor · Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co. · Farrell v. United States · United States v. Valencia-Copete · Park Motor Mart, Inc. v. Ford Motor 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“maintenance and cure may still be awarded plaintiff notwithstanding a pre-existing condition as long as that condition is not deliberately concealed and is not disabling at the time the seaman signs on for the voyage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“he was not disabled from his duties as a seaman”
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.