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12 F. 331 · 1882
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 20 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1956 · most notably The Osceola (1903), Hipolite Egg Company v. United States (1911)
15 federal appellate · 20 district ·
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 Robert Vandewater v. Edward Mills · the Schooner Freeman v. Alvah Buckingham · Elliott v. Lessee of Peirsol · Atkins v. The Disintegrating Company · Eber Ward Survivor Owner of the Steamboat Detroit v. Charles Thompson
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This libel should therefore be dismissed as against the vessel, * * * and the sureties upon the bond given upon her release should be discharged, but without prejudice to any application by the libelant, within 10 days, to amend the libel by praying judgment against the owner, who has heretofore appeared and answered herein, and for the usual citation against him. and after due service thereof, or his voluntary appearance, the cause to be heard upon the proofs already taken, and such additional proofs as either party may desire to add.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Susquehanna““Under rule 46 of the Supreme Court rules in admiralty [29 Sup. Ct. xliv] an •action in rem may be joined with an action in personam against the master or owners for breaches of contracts of affreightment or charter parties. The same is true in other cases not expressly provided for under the Supreme Court rules in accordance with the prior and subsequent practice of the district courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Dawn““Those rules, while providing for the joinder of remedies in regard to various other subjects, do not provide for this; and under rule 46 it is, therefore, left subject to the regulation of the several district and circuit courts; and the former practice of joining these remedies in this class of cases exists in this district, as well as in other districts.” 12 Fed. 336 , 337.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Dawn
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.