The Ariadne’s Empirical Analysis
15 U.S. 143 · 1817
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1985
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Cornthwait et al · United States v. The Cargo of the Ship Fanny
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is sufficient to declare that we hold that the sailing on a voyage under the license and passport of protection of the enemy in furtherance of his views or interests, constitutes such an act of illegality as subjects the ship and cargo to confiscation as prize of war.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Adula
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.