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5 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 27 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Barbara Jean Johnson, Cross-Appellant v. Offshore Express, Inc., Cross-Appellee.

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1 Barbara Jean Johnson, Cross-Appellant v. Offshore Express, Inc., Cross-Appellee Anchor
ca5 · 1988
green “the unseaworthy condition played a substantial part in bringing about or actually causing the injury and that the injury was either a direct result or a reasonably probable consequence of the unseaworthiness.” 7
2 Barbara Jean Johnson, Cross-Appellant v. Offshore Express, Inc., Cross-Appellee
ca5 · 1988
green “to establish the requisite proximate cause in an unseaworthiness claim, a plaintiff must prove that the unseaworthy condition played a substantial part in bringing about or actually causing the injury and that the injury was either a direct result or a reasonably probable conseq…” 6
3 Barbara Jean Johnson, Cross-Appellant v. Offshore Express, Inc., Cross-Appellee
ca5 · 1988
green “a plaintiff must prove that the unseaworthy condition played a substantial part in bringing about or actually causing the injury and that the injury was either a direct result or a reasonably probable consequence of the unseaworthiness.” 5
4 Charles D. Gautreaux v. Scurlock Marine, Inc.
ca5 · 1997
green “a seaman is entitled to recovery under the jones act, therefore, if his employer's negligence is the cause, in whole or in part, of his injury.” 5
5 Charles D. Gautreaux v. Scurlock Marine, Inc.
ca5 · 1997
green “a seaman is entitled to recovery under the jones act ... if his employer's negligence is the cause, in whole or in part, of his injury.” 4

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