Hellenic Lines Ltd. v. Rhoditis’s Empirical Analysis
412 F.2d 919 · 1969
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2009
10 federal appellate · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. · Lauritzen v. Larsen · Kwong Hai Chew v. Colding · Ogletree v. Ohio · Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Oklahoma Retail Grocers Ass'n
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We recognize that the Second Circuit has reached a contrary result on identical facts (the defendants there were, as here, corporations dominated by Pericles and the plaintiff was a Greek seaman injured in a United States port). Tsakonites v. Transpacific Carriers Corp., 2 Cir. 1966, 368 F.2d 426 , cert, denied, 386 U.S. 1007 , 87 S. Ct. 1348 , 18 L.Ed.2d 434 .” (Id. at 925).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.