The Venus, Rae, Master’s Empirical Analysis
12 U.S. 253 · 1814
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Demore District Director San Francisco District of Immigration and Naturalization Service et al. v. Kim (2003), Guessefeldt v. McGrath (1952)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 Alexander Murray v. Charming Betsy · Carter's Heirs v. Cutting · Deming v. Bailey · Grant v. Deuel
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bound, by such residence, to the society of which they are members, subject to the laws of the state, and owing a qualified allegiance thereto; they are obliged to defend it, (with an exception in favor of such a subject, in relation to his native country) in return for the protection it affords them, and the privileges which the laws bestow upon them as subjects,”
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.