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Lauro Lines S.R.L. v. Chasser’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

800
cited by 800 later decisions
14
cited 14 times by the Supreme Court
18
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

352 federal appellate · 81 district · 68 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 800 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Behrens v. Pelletier (1996), Quackenbush California Insurance Commissioner v. Allstate Insurance Co (1996)

352 federal appellate · 81 district · 68 state decisions — followed in 18 states

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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

reviewedChasser v. Achille Lauro Lines (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292

Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · M/s Bremen v. Zapata off-Shore Company

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 800 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “an asserted right the legal and practical value of which would be destroyed if it were not vindicated before trial.”
    18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. United States v. Walker River Irrigation District, a Corporation State of Nevada v. Walker River Paiute Tribe, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant · Webb v. Farmers of N. Am., Inc.
  2. “be effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment.”
    15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. United States v. Taylor · Johnson v. Greater Southeast Community Hospital
  3. “sufficiently important to overcome the policies militating against interlocutory appeals”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In Re AIU Insurance Co. · Nemours Foundation v. Manganaro Corp.

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.