The Arkansas’s Empirical Analysis
17 F. 383 · 1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1972
1 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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 Plymouth · The Propeller Genesee Chief Pierce Kelsey Cheney Hunter Swan Clark Strong v. Fitzhugh Littlejohn Peck · The Moses Taylor · Atlee v. Packet Co. · The Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company v. The Philadelphia and Havre De Grace Steam Towboat Company
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The solution of the question of jurisdiction does not depend, in my judgment, upon the fact of the structure being solid or floating, realty or personalty, firmly affixed to the bed of the river or otherwise. It is a question of place, and of the rightfulness of the structure.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Mackinaw
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.