Sosebee v. Rath’s Empirical Analysis
893 F.2d 54 · 1990
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Abrams v. Lightolier Inc. (1995), Public Interest Research Group of New Jersey, Inc. v. Windall (1995)
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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. § 1333
Relies on Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · F. D. Rich Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Industrial Lumber Co. · Sloan v. Hicks · Vaughan v. Atkinson · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is a strong interest in maintaining uniformity in maritime law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here a case arises under the federal maritime law, as this case does, a local statute awarding attorneys' fees should not be applied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all other remedies to which they are otherwise entitled.”
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.