Beard v. Norwegian Caribbean Lines’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 71 · 1990
Citation profile
84 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Gafford v. General Electric Co. (1993), J.c. Wyckoff & Associates, Inc. v. The Standard Fire Insurance Company (1991)
84 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Kermarec v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique · Kitchen v. Chippewa Valley Schools · The "City of Panama"
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a whole to determine whether they adequately inform the jury of relevant considerations and provide a basis in law for the jury to reach its decision.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A judgment may be reversed only if the instructions, viewed as a whole, were confusing, misleading, or prejudicial.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. William E. Foster, and Cross v. City of Southfield, a Municipal Corporation, Janet Tobin, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rollin G. Tobin, Deceased, and Robert Block, Its Agents, Officers and Employees, Jointly and Severally, and Cross William E. Foster v. City of Southfield, a Municipal Corporation, Janet Tobin, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rollin G. Tobin, Deceased, and Robert Block, Its Agents, Officers and Employees, Jointly and Severally · Roberts v. Galen of Virginia, Inc.“As the accident in this case occurred in navigable waters, federal maritime law [reasonable care], rather than state law[very high degree of care], governs the resolution of this controversy.”
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.