The Caledonian’s Empirical Analysis
17 U.S. 100 · 1819
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 16 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1998 · most notably United States v. One Ford Coupe Automobile (1926), Dodge v. United States (1926)
27 federal appellate · 16 district · 7 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 The Ariadne · First Municipality of New Orleans v. Commissioners of the General Sinking Fund · The Thomas Gibbons, Rockwell, Master · Martin v. Drake
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a general rule, that any person may seize any property forfeited to the use of the government, either by the municipal law, or by the law of prize, for the purpose of enforcing the forfeiture, and it depends upon the government itself whether it will act upon the seizure. If it adopts the acts of the party, and proceeds to enforce the forfeiture by legal process, this is a sufficient recognition and confirmation of the seizure, and is of equal validity in law with an original authority given to the party to make the seizure. The confirmation acts retroactively and is equivalent to a command.””
3 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.