Bermuda Express Nv Nrs v. M/v Litsa’s Empirical Analysis
872 F.2d 554 · 1989
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Max's Seafood Cafe Lou-Ann Inc v. Quinteros (1999), Danjaq Llc Delaware Limited Liability Company v. Sony Corporation (2001)
10 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1333
Relies on Gardner v. Panama Railroad · Piedmont & Georges Creek Coal Co. v. Seaboard Fisheries Co. · Kolender v. Lawson · Dannebrog v. Signal Oil & Gas Co. · The Key City
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lienors are not required to attempt to enforce their liens in foreign waters,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A balancing of the equities requires consideration not only of the bona fides of the purchaser, i.e., its lack of actual knowledge of unpaid liens and its search of the ship’s registry, but also of its efforts to ascertain whether, in light of the absence of any legal requirement of filing liens, there are in fact liens outstanding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not directly related to loading or unloading the vessel”
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.