Bassis v. Universal Line, S.A.’s Empirical Analysis
484 F.2d 1065 · 1973
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2006
4 federal appellate ·
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. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1921
Relies on New York Dock Co v. The Poznan · Long Beach Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Federal Home Loan Bank · Wills Lines · The Poznan · Bassis v. Universal Line, S.A.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those furnishing custodial services to a ship in custodia legis 'are gambling on a wholly unpredictable result unless they take the precaution of having their services authorized in advance by an order of the custodial court.'”
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.