Mendes Junior International Co. v. M/V Sokai Maru’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.3d 153 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2013
8 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 294
Relies on Avondale Industries, Inc. v. International Marine Carriers, Inc. · Tapco Nigeria Ltd. v. M/V Westwind · Mendes Junior International Company v. M/v Sokai Maru, Atlanta Maritime Corporation and Sanko Kisen Kk · Metropolitan Wholesale Supply, Inc. v. M/V Royal Rainbow · E.A.S.T., Inc. v. M/V ALAIA
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all contracts for the carriage of goods by sea to or from ports of the United States and foreign trade,”
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.