United States v. George Dewey U S No 309 George Dewey U S’s Empirical Analysis
188 U.S. 254 · 1903
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 16 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably Central Union Trust Co of New York v. Garvan Merrill (1921), Hijo v. United States (1904)
15 federal appellate · 16 district · 9 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 Paquete Habana · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Behlmer · Armitz Drown v. The United States · Dewey v. United States
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he high seas include coast waters without the boundaries of low-water mark, though within bays or roadsteads, waters on which a court of admiralty has jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jack““Ordinarily the property must be brought in for adjudication, as the question is one of title, which does not vest until condemnation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Appam“which was intended to be disposed of at the foreign port.”
1 later decision 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.