Mpiliris v. Hellenic Lines, Limited’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2016
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 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
Applies 22 U.S.C. § 288D · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Lutwak v. United States · Hilton v. Guyot · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Lauritzen v. Larsen · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]y reason of the strong social interests in protecting the integrity of the marital status, when two persons, otherwise qualified voluntarily go through a marriage ceremony, albeit for a limited purpose, with the intention, mutual understanding and anticipation that the marriage is to be accorded legal significance, the marriage is binding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pritchard v. Purcell“two people participate in a mock marriage ceremony as the result of jest, exuberance, hilarity or dare and harbor no intention to be bound thereby.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pritchard v. Purcell“is considered to be one of the strongest recognized by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pritchard v. Purcell
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.