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( ` ` #\  PCsP#x X2  ddBQck QuoteSingle spaced indented quote - Circv C   (  Cd  ( ( ( Footnotes*rsFormats for ASTERISK footnotes'#[ P['CdP# ddf < X01Í Í1*'(Í Í #o P['Cn&P#X` hp x (#%'0*,.8135@8: Sisson the benefit of stare decisis. As shown above,  J Sisson and Foremost themselves overextended Executive  J Jet and deviated from a long tradition of admiralty  J jurisprudence. More importantly, the new test of Sisson  J and Foremost did not produce greater clarity or simplicity in exchange for departing from a century of undisturbed practice. Instead, as discussed earlier, the two cases have produced only confusion and disarray in the lower courts and in this Court as well. It would seem that in the area of federal subjectmatter jurisdiction, vagueness and ambiguity are grounds enough to revisit an unworkable prior decision.  J^  In place of Sisson I would follow the test described at the outset. When determining whether maritime jurisdiction exists under 1333(1), a federal district court should ask if the tort occurred on a vessel on the navigable waters. This approach won the approval of two  J Justices in Sisson, see 497 U.S., at 373 (Scalia, J., joined by White, J., concurring in judgment). Although  JF Justice Scalia's Sisson concurrence retained a normal maritime activities component, it recognized that any"  Ԯthing a vessel does in the navigable waters would meet that requirement, and that [i]t would be more straightforward to jettison the `traditional maritime activity'  J analysis entirely. Id., at 374. I wholly agree and have chosen the straightforward approach, which, for all of its simplicity, would have produced the same results the  J Court arrived at in Executive Jet, Foremost, Sisson, and this case. Although this approach might leave within  J admiralty jurisdiction a few unusual actions, ibid., such freakish cases will occur rarely. In any event, the resources needed to resolve them will be saved many times over by a clear jurisdictional rule that makes it unnecessary to decide what is a traditional maritime activity and what poses a threat to maritime commerce.  J Id., at 374!375.  In this case, a straightforward application of the proposed test easily produces a finding of admiralty jurisdiction. As the majority quite ably demonstrates, the situs requirement is satisfied because the tort was  J caused by a spud barge on the Chicago River. Ante, at 6!8. Although the accident's effects were felt on land, the Extension of Admiralty Jurisdiction Act brings the event within 1333(1). While I agree with the majority's analysis of this question, I disagree with its decision to continue on to other issues. A simple application of the situs test would yield the same result the Court reaches at the end of its analysis.  This Court pursues clarity and efficiency in other areas of federal subjectmatter jurisdiction, and it should demand no less in admiralty and maritime law. The test I have proposed would produce much the same  J( results as the Sisson analysis without the need for wasteful litigation over threshold jurisdictional questions.  J Because Sisson departed from a century of precedent, is unworkable, and is easily replaced with a brightline rule, I concur only in the judgment.