The Brig Ann’s Empirical Analysis
13 U.S. 289 · 1815
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 28 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably United States v. James Daniel Good Real Property (1993), Continental Grain Company v. The Fbl-585 (1960)
40 federal appellate · 28 district · 6 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.
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]efore judicial cognizance can attach upon a forfeiture in rem, ... there must be a seizure; for until seizure it is impossible to ascertain what is the competent forum.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'in order to institute and perfect proceedings in rem, ... the thing should be actually or constructively within the reach of the Court.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to purge away all the prior rights acquired by the seizure,”
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.