United States v. Bevans’s Empirical Analysis
16 U.S. 336 · 1818
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 23 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen (1917)
31 federal appellate · 23 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 the Schooner Exchange v. McFaddon Others · United States v. La Vengeance · The United States v. The Schooner Betsey and Charlotte, and Her Cargo · Pierce Beach
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That if any person or persons shall, within any fort, arsenal, dockyard, magazine, or in any other place or district of country, under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, commit thh crime of willful murder, such person or persons on being thereof convicted shall suffer death.” •”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“upon the high seas or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The place described is unquestionably within the original territory of Massachusetts. It is, then, within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, unless that jurisdiction has been ceded to the United States.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.