The Sloop Active v. The United States’s Empirical Analysis
11 U.S. 100 · 1812
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2002
5 federal appellate · 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 Bingham v. Morris
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The case is undoubtedly within the words of the 32d section of the enrolling and licensing act. The Active was a licensed vessel employed in a trade other than that for which she was licensed. * * * The Active and her cargo, therefore, must be considered as forfeited, except so far as they come within the 33d section, * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“legislative confession that the law was not so before.”
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.