The Vessel 'Abby Dodge' v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

61 federal appellate · 29 district · 29 state decisions

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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Tlie power of Congress over foreign commerce is complete; no- one lias a vested right to carry on foreign commerce with the United States. * * *■ When Congress, under its power to regulate foreign commerce, prohibits the importation of certain merchandise, it may cast oil the one seeking to bring merchandise in the burden of establishing that it is exempt from the operation of the statute.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Twenty Chests of Tea

2. ““This follows because of the elementary rule of construction that, where two interpretations of a statute are in reason admissible, one of which creates a repugnancy to the Constitution and the other avoids such repugnancy, the one which makes the statute harmonize with the Constitution must be adopted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Territory v. Northern Commercial Co.

3. ““In like maimer, the states own tbe tide waters themselves, and the fish in them, so far as they are capable of ownership while running. For this purpose the state represents its people, and the ownership is that of the people in their united sovereignty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Shauver