Lamar v. McCulloch’s Empirical Analysis
115 U.S. 163 · 1885
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2012
1 district · 2 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 Ex parte Garland · United States v. Klein · Lammon v. Feusier · United States v. Padelford · Lamar Executor v. Browne et al.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the remedy given in cases of seizure made under [CAPA], by preferring claim in the court of claims, should be exclusive, precluding the owner of any property taken by agents of the Treasury Department as abandoned or captured property in virtue or under color of said act from suit at common law, or any other mode of redress whatever before any court or tribunal other than said court of claims; and in all cases in which suits of trespass, replevin, detinue, or any other form of action may have been brought and are now pending, or shall hereafter be brought against any person for or on account of private property taken by such person as an officer or agent of the United States, in virtue or under color of the act aforesaid, ... the defendant may and shall plead or allege in bar thereof that such action was done or omitted to be done by him as an officer or agent of the United States in the administration of one of the acts of Congress aforesaid, or in virtue or under color thereof, and such plea or allegation, if the fact be sustained by the proof, shall be, and shall be deemed and adjudged in law to be, a complete and conclusive bar to any such suit or action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In Lammon v. Feusier, 111 U. S. 17 , 4 Sup. Ct. 286 , where a marshal haying attachment against the property of one person levied it on the property of a stranger, it was held by this court that the sureties on the official bond of the marshal were liable to the stranger because the marshal had acted colore officii although he had acted without sufficient warrant.””
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.