Roper v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that a liberty ship “deactivated from service and ‘mothballed’” is not a “vessel in navigation”
• finding that a liberty ship “deactivated from ser- vice and ‘mothballed’ ” is not a “vessel in navigation”
• “Unlike a barge, the S. S. Harry Lane was not moved in order to transport commodities from one location to another”
• “Unlike a barge, the S. S. Harry Lane was not moved in order to transport commodities from one location to another”
• where vessel is not “in navigation” — ie., no longer used to travel the seas — it carries no warranty of seaworthiness
• where vessel is not \in navigation\- i.e. , no longer used to travel the seas-it carries no warranty of seaworthiness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

75 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Guzman v. Pichirilo
  Supreme Court· 1962-05-21· cited 224×
• Stewart v. Dutra Construction Co.
  Supreme Court· 2005-02-22· cited 221×
• Watz v. Zapata Off-Shore Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1970-09-01· cited 110×
• Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach
  Supreme Court· 2013-01-15· cited 107×
• Robert D. Cook v. American Steamship Company
  Sixth Circuit· 1995-05-05· cited 65×
• Edgar J. Williams, Jr. v. Avondale Shipyards, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1971-11-03· cited 46×
• Delome v. Union Barge Line Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1971-06-08· cited 46×
• Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., Helix Well Ops, Inc., and Helix Offshore International, Inc. v. Kelvin Gold
  Texas Supreme Court· 2017-06-16· cited 45×
• Underwriters at Lloyd's v. Labarca
  First Circuit· 2001-08-02· cited 44×
• Eddie Huff v. Matson Navigation Company, a Corporation
  Ninth Circuit· 1964-10-22· cited 43×
• Simko v. C & C Marine Maintenance Co.
  Third Circuit· 1979-02-20· cited 43×
• American Export Lines, Owner Pro Hac Vice of the S.S. Exmouth v. Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation
  Fourth Circuit· 1964-08-20· cited 41×
• Glenda Churchwell v. Bluegrass Marine, Inc., Marquette Transportation Co., Inc., and Motor Vessel Marie Hendrick
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-04-21· cited 41×
• Floyd Leon Wixom, Jr. v. Boland Marine and Manufacturing Company, Inc. And the Travelers Insurance Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-03-31· cited 27×
• Waganer v. Sea-Land Service, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-11-19· cited 27×
• Rudolph E. Hill v. B.F. Diamond, Trading as Diamond Construction Company, John Gence Hodges v. B. F. Diamond, Trading as Diamond Construction Company
  Fourth Circuit· 1962-12-31· cited 22×
• McFarland v. Justiss Oil Co., Inc.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1988-04-06· cited 20×
• Harvard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-02-06· cited 19×
• Rogers v. M/V RALPH BOLLINGER
  E.D. Louisiana· 1968-02-01· cited 18×
• Melvin McCown v. Humble Oil & Refining Company
  Fourth Circuit· 1969-01-16· cited 17×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• West v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-12-07· cited 230×
• Desper v. Starved Rock Ferry Co.
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-02· cited 136×
• Butler v. Whiteman
  Supreme Court· 1958-04-14· cited 105×
• Cecil Lawlor v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc., Now Known as Socony-Mobil Oil Company, Inc., and Third-Party and Bethlehem Steel Company, Third-Party
  Second Circuit· 1960-03-08· cited 48×
• Hawn v. American S. S. Co.
  Second Circuit· 1939-12-11· cited 46×
• Union Carbide Corp. v. Goett
  Fourth Circuit· 1958-05-27· cited 21×
• Kissinger v. United States
  E.D. New York· 1959-09-14· cited 7×
• Roper v. United States
  E.D. Virginia· 1959-02-26· cited 5×
• Krolczyk v. Waterways Navigation Co.
  E.D. Michigan· 1957-05-21· cited 2×
• Roper v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1960-08-30· cited 1×

Other cases named Roper v. United States

16 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Roper v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1989-09-26· cited 40×
• Roper v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1931-12-21· cited 8×
• Roper v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1960-08-30· cited 7×
• Roper v. United States
  E.D. Virginia· 1959-02-26· cited 5×
• Roper v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1952-03-11· cited 1×
• Roper v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1960-08-30· cited 1×
• Roper v. United States
  Court Of Appeals Of Indian Territory· 1907-09-26· cited 1×
• Roper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1961-01-23· cited 1×
• Roper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1989-10-02· cited 1×
• Roper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1989-10-02· cited 1×
• Roper v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1954-05-03
• Roper v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-08-05
• Roper v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1918-12-17
• Roper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1989-11-06
• Roper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1989-11-06
• Roper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1998-06-08