Great Lakes Dredge Dock Company v. Tanker Robert Watt Miller Chevron Transport Corporation S/s Robert Watt Miller Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co’s Empirical Analysis
957 F.2d 1575 · 1992
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably McDonald's Corporation v. Robertson (1998), United States of America v. Ignasio Maldenaldo Sanchez (2001)
57 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Bonner v. City of Prichard · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · CPC International Inc. v. Dimmitt Agri Industries, Inc. · Liegl v. Webb
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is neither the law of the case nor binding precedent”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“); Self v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., 832 F.2d 1540 (11th Cir. 1987) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry P. Murphy, Steven A. Murphy, as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Brendan M. Murphy, and as Parents and Natural Guardians of Steven A. Murphy, Jr., a Minor v. Florida Keys Electric Cooperative Association, Inc., Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant v. Raymond Ashman, Iii, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian, of Raymond Ashman, Iv, a Minor Child, Third-Party-Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee, Steven A. Murphy, Sr., Third-Party-Defendants · Murphy v. Florida Keys Electric Cooperative Ass'n, Inc.“free to give that question fresh consideration”
2 later decisions 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.