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101 U.S. 37 · 1879
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably Missouri Kansas Texas Railway Company v. Harriman Brothers (1913), Holder v. City of Allentown (1993)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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
Relies on The Anne · Phillips v. Payne · Lachomette v. Thomas · The Sir William Peel
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No court will lend its aid to a party who founds his claim for redress upon an illegal act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The title to captured property always vests primarily in the government of the captors.”
2 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.