Morehead v. Atkinson-Kiewit, J/V’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.3d 603 · 1996
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Stewart v. Dutra Construction Co. (2005), Scheuring v. Traylor Bros. (2007)
10 federal appellate · 4 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 Heck v. Humphrey · Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Raphan v. United States · Zerman v. Melton · Scindia Steam Navigation Co. v. De Los Santos
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[o]n occasion, however, the duties and work arrangements pertaining to a suing harbor worker may be so foreign to those in Scindia's stevedoring context that Scindia's analysis will become no more than a point of departure.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the duty owed by a shipowner to a longshoreman under section 905(b) is that established by Scindia . . . ; this duty is neither heightened nor diminished when the longshoreman is employed directly by the vessel”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“significantly more inclusive than that used for evaluating seaman status under the Jones Act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.