The Mary Ann’s Empirical Analysis
21 U.S. 380 · 1823
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1976
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Schooner Hoppet and Cargo v. The United States · Pierce Beach · Brig Caroline, William Broadfoot v. The 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is, in general, true, that it is sufficient for a libel to 'eharge the offence in the very words which direct the forfeiture ; but this proposition is not, we think, universally true. If the words which describe the subject of the law are general, embracing a whole class of individuals, but must necessarily be so construed as to embrace only a subdivision of that class, we think the charge in the libel ought to conform to the true sense and meaning of those words as used by the legislature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schmidt v. State
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.