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22 U.S. 362 · 1824
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 24 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Carroll v. United States (1925), Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank (1939)
85 federal appellate · 24 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Locke v. The United States · Gelston v. Hoyt · Church v. Hubbart · Talbot v. Janson
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Court is bound to take notice of public facts and geographical positions.”); Cervantes v. United States, 263 F.2d 800 , 803 n. 5 (9th Cir.1959) (”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t would be monstrous to suppose that our revenue officers were authorized to enter into foreign ports and territories, for the purpose of seizing vessels which had óffended against our laws” because such conduct would be”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When any prosecution shall be commenced on account of the seizure of any ship or vessel, goods, wares, or merchandise, and judgment shall be given for the claimant or claimants, if it shall appear to the court before whom such prosecution shall be tried that there was a reasonable cause of seizure, the said court shall cause a proper certificate or entry to be made thereoi; and in such case the claimant or claimants shall not be entitled to costs, nor shall the person who made the seizure, or the prosecutor, be liable to action, suit, or judgment on account of such seizure or prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stacey v. Emery
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.