Benefiel’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Flint · 34 Cal. 3d 49 - Bigbee v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Lies v. Farrell Lines, Inc. · Weissich v. County of Marin · Rexall Drug Co. v. Nihill
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if oil that has been transported through the trans-Alaska pipeline is loaded on a vessel at the terminal facilities of the pipeline, the owner and operator of the vessel . . . shall be strictly liable . . . for all damages, including clean-up costs, sustained by any person or entity, public, or private, including residents of Canada, as the result of discharges of oil from such vessel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile proximate or legal causation normally presents an issue for the trier of fact to resolve, both California and federal law recognize that where causation cannot reasonably be established under the facts alleged by a plaintiff, the question of proximate cause is one for the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“uniformly accepted principles of tort law ... require a plaintiff to prove more than that the defendant's action triggered a series of other events that led to the alleged injury.”
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.