Garnett’s Empirical Analysis
141 U.S. 1 · 1891
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 18 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2013 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen (1917)
66 federal appellate · 18 district · 13 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · The Daniel Ball · United States v. Reese · Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · The Lottawanna
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Constitution extends the judicial power of the United States to 'all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,' and as this jurisdiction is held to be exclusive, the power of legislation on the same subject must necessarily be in the National Legislature, and not in the State Legislature.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It being clear, then, that the law of limited liability of ship-owners is a part of our maritime Code, the extent of its territorial operation (as before intimated) cannot be doubtful. It is necessarily co-extensive with that of the general admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and that by the settled law of this country extends wherever public navigation extends — on the sea and the great inland lakes, and the navigable waters connecting therewith.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That it makes no difference as to the jurisdiction of the District Court, that one or the other of the vessels was at the time of the collision bñ a voyage from one place in the State of Illinois to another place in the same State.”
2 later decisions 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.