The Professor Morse’s Empirical Analysis
23 F. 803 · 1885
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1977
6 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Plymouth · The Rock Island Bridge · The Arkansas
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not changed because the ways ran down below the ebb and flow of the tide, to facilitate the transfer of vessels from the water to the shore.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hastings v. Mann
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.