General Ship Service’s Empirical Analysis
938 F.2d 960 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2010
11 federal appellate · 1 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. § 901
Relies on Santoni v. United States · Garrett v. United States · Berra v. United States · Travelers Insurance v. Cardillo · Todd Shipyards Corp. v. Black
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The carrier has the burden to show inapplicability of the insurance policy because the relevant documents could only be within the carrier's exclusive control.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he purpose of the last employer rule is to avoid the complexities of assigning joint liability .... [it] calls for a single employer to be liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Far West Insulation“that [Brown] was exposed to injurious stimuli while performing work covered under the [LHWCA] for a subsequent employer.”
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.