The United States v. John Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
11 U.S. 108 · 1812
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1938
4 federal appellate ·
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 Hawthorne v. The United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cases of equity, of admiralty, and maritime jurisdiction, and of prize or no prize.”
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.