The Cargo of the Brig Aurora Burn Side v. The United States’s Empirical Analysis
11 U.S. 382 · 1813
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 9 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan (1935), Hirabayashi v. United States (1943)
15 federal appellate · 9 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Preston v. Tremble
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no sufficient reaso[n] why the legislature should not exercise its discretion ... either expressly or conditionally, as their judgment should direct.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"* * * This certainly is a decision that it was competent for congress to make the revival of an act depend upon the proclamation of the president, showing the ascertainment by him of the fact that the edicts of certain nations had been so revoked or modified that they did not violate the neutral commerce of the United States. The same principle would apply in the case of the suspension of an act upon a contingency to be ascertained by the president, and made known by his proclamation. [Emphasis by the Court.] "* * * If we find that congress has frequently, from the organization of the government to the present time, conferred upon the president powers, with reference to trade and commerce, like those conferred by the third section of the act of October 1, 1890, that fact is entitled to great weight in determining the question before us."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“cease[d] to violate the neutral commerce of the United States.”
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.