Cushing v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
107 U.S. 69 · 1882
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Swift & Co. Packers v. Compania Colombiana Del Caribe, S. A. (1950), Hobbs v. McLean (1886)
55 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 Siren · The Apollon · Atkins v. The Disintegrating Company · The Amiable Isabella · Rose v. Himely
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a court of admiralty, as in a court of common law, a process of foreign attachment is auxiliary and incidental to the principal cause. Second Rule of Practice in Admiralty, 3 How. iii. Manro v. Almeida, 10 Wheat. 473 (6 L.Ed. 369); Atkins v. The Disintegrating Company, 18 Wall. 272 (21 L.Ed. 841). Neither the principal defendant nor the garnishees can appeal until after a final decree against them. The first decree against these garnishees, ascertaining their liability, was interlocutory only, and, if the libellants had ultimately failed to recover judgment against the principal defendant and execution against the garnishees, would have been of no avail to the libellants, and of no effect against the garnishees. The appeal of the garnishees from this interlocutory order of the District Court was therefore rightly dismissed by the Circuit Court, and the order of dismissal must be affirmed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.