Hellenic Lines, Ltd. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.2d 1196 · 1975
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Berkshire Fashions, Inc. v. The M.V. Hakusan II (1992), Calmaquip Engineering West Hemisphere Corp. v. West Coast Carriers Ltd. (1981)
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 15 U.S.C. § 616A · 7 U.S.C. § 1721
Relies on The Caledonia · Steamship Willdomino v. Citro Chemical Co. · Republic of France v. French Overseas Corporation the Malcolm Baxter Jr · The Delaware · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. v. SS Hong Kong Producer
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would seem hard to 'deviate' from ... a voyage,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berkshire Fashions, Inc. v. The M v. Hakusan Ii, Her Engines Boilers Etc. In Rem Canopus Ship-Holding S.A., Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Showa Kaiun, Air-Sea Transport Inc., Orient Star Shipping (Usa) Inc., Y.F.K. Cargo Service, Inc. A/K/A Y.F.K. Air Cargo Service Inc., Global Traffic Systems Inc., and J.O v. Enterprises, Inc., Global Traffic Systems and Jo-Lin Hauling, Inc., Third-Party v. Carbro Construction Corp., and the City of Linden, N.J., Third-Party · Berkshire Fashions, Inc. v. The M.V. Hakusan II“(T)he clear plan of COGSA is to differentiate between reasonable deviations, which are without legal consequences, and unreasonable deviations, which entail serious ones.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the days when wooden application of the parol evidence rule was allowed to produce results contrary to the parties' intention have long since passed”
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.