The Adventure’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Upon the donation, therefore, whatever right might, in the abstract, have existed in the captor, the donee could acquire no more than what was consistent with his neutral character to take. He could be in no better situation than a prize master navigating the prize in pursuance of orders from his commander. The vessel remained liable to British capture on the whole voyage, and, on her arrival in a neutral territory, the donee sank into a more bailee for the British claimant, with those rights over the thing in possession which the civil law gave for the care and labor bestowed upon it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Appam

2. “"Although property of that description [enemy property in the United States] is liable to be disposed of by the legislative power of the country, yet, until some act is passed upon the subject, it is still under the protection of the law, and may be claimed after the termination of war, if not previously confiscated."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. GMO. Niehaus & Co. v. United States