2 U.S. 40
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May Session, 1783.
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1783-05
ON motion of the Appellant’s Counsel, before an appearance filed on behalf of the Appellee, stating that the prize Schooner was in a perishing condition, it was ordered,
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1783-05
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1946
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.
View the full empirical analysis of this case →
¶1ON motion of the Appellant’s Counsel, before an appearance filed on behalf of the Appellee, stating that the prize Schooner was in a perishing condition, it was ordered,
¶3That the Schooner, her tackle, apparel, and furniture, be fold at public auction, to the highest bidder, for the use of those to whom the same shall be finally decreed.