The Schooner Hoppet and Cargo v. The United States’s Empirical Analysis
11 U.S. 389 · 1813
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably C. J. Hendry Co. v. Moore (1943), United States v. One 1976 Mercedes Benz 280S, Serial No. 11602012072193 (1980)
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 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 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule that a man shall not be charged with one crime and convicted of another, may sometimes cover real guilt, but its observance is essential to the preservation of innocence.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proceedings in Courts of common law, either against the person or the thing, for penalties or forfeitures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 79-1517
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.