Hurst v. Pilings & Structures, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.2d 504 · 1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2017
13 federal appellate ·
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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · The Robert W. Parsons · Bernard v. Binnings Construction Co. · The Robert W. Parsons · Guidry v. South Louisiana Contractors, 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether a special purpose structure like a spud barge is a vessel, the critical inquiry is ‘the purpose for which the craft was constructed and the business in which it is engaged.’ $ * # ‡ ♦ sjc That ... [defendant’s] spud barge was constructed for the purpose of serving as a work platform, ... and that ... [it] was engaged as a work platform at the time of [the] ... injury is also undisputed. The barge was secured at least temporarily to the waterway floor at the time of the injury, and the barge’s only transport funcits own push boat, smaller barges, and incidental to its primary purpose of serving as a work platform.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“flat-decked floating structure that has devices similar to legs, called spuds, which are lowered from underneath the barge and pushed into the waterway floor to anchor the structure in place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Jones Act permits a seaman injured in the course of employment to bring an action against his employer for damages.”
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.