Williams v. Fab-Con, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
990 F.2d 228 · 1993
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2015
5 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
Relies on McDermott International, Inc. v. Wilander · Newland v. Georgia · Contemporary Mission, Inc. v. United States · Leger v. Drilling Well Control, Inc. · Alejandro Hernandez v. M/v Rajaan, Etc., and Dianella Shipping Corporation, Defendants-Third Party v. Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries, Ltd., Cargill, Inc., Third Party Alejandro Hernandez v. M/v Rajaan, Her Engines, Tackle, Etc., in Rem, and Dianella Shipping Corporation
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly includes employees working in offshore operations not classified as masters or members of a crew of a vessel, when they are adjudged by the courts to be masters or crew members and entitled to remedies under Admiralty Law.”
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.