Day v. Gallup’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1958
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Day v. Gallup
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the officer has a- right, under the laws of the United States, to seize for a supposed forfeiture, the question, whether that forfeiture has been actually incurred, belongs exclusively to the Federal courts, and cannot he drawn to another forum. And if the seizure be finally adjudged wrongful, and without reasonable cause, he may proceed, at his election, by a suit at common law, or in the Admiralty, for damages for the illegal act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Day v. Gallup“involve a question of right and title to the property under the Federal process, which belonged to the Federal, and not State courts, to determine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Day v. Gallup“of title to the property under the Federal process”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Day v. Gallup
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.