O'Boyle v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 211 · 1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2015
6 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 McDermott International, Inc. v. Wilander · Offshore Company and the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York, Appellants v. Johnie M. Robison, Appellee-Appellant. Robison v. Offshore Company and the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York · Guidry v. South Louisiana Contractors, Inc. · Durrett v. Housing Authority of the City of Providence · Hurst v. Pilings & Structures, Inc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to recover damages under the Jones Act, [a plaintiff] must have the status of a seaman.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“); Hurst v. Pilings & Structures, Inc., 896 F.2d 504, 505 (11th Cir.1990) (”
1 later decision 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.