Vimar Seguros Reaseguros Sa v. M/v Sky Reefer’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
144 federal appellate · 48 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 615 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. United States Ex Rel. Stevens (2000), Gisbrecht v. Barnhart (2002)
144 federal appellate · 48 district · 67 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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
reviewedthe decision below (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 2 · 9 U.S.C. § 201
Relies on Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · M/s Bremen v. Zapata off-Shore Company · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Volt Information Sciences Inc v. Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University · Morton v. Mancari
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 615 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]ere we persuaded that the choice-of-forum and choice-of-law clauses operated in tandem as a prospective waiver of a party's right to pursue statutory remedies, we would have little hesitation in condemning the agreement as against public policy.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“whether the substantive law to be applied [would] reduce the carrier's obligations to the cargo owner below what [the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act] requires.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]ny clause, covenant, or agreement in a contract of carriage relieving the carrier or the ship from liability[.]”
6 later decisions 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.