Morton v. De Oliveira’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 289 · 1993
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Niece v. Elmview Group Home (1997), Silveira v. Lockyer (2002)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Kermarec v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique · In re Disbarment of Johnson · Gozlon-Peretz v. United States · Kruso v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nly the court sitting en banc may overrule a prior decision of the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the owner of a ship in navigable waters owes to all who are on board for purposes not inimical to his legitimate interests the duty of exercising reasonable care under the circumstances of each case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the rule is well nigh universal that the carrier cannot plead as a defense that the servant acted outside the scope of his employment.”
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.