Thomas v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1813
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2004
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Moors v. Parker
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.
“that the jurisdiction of the admiralty is exclusively dependent upon the locality of the act. The admiralty has not (I believe) deliberately claimed to have any jurisdiction over torts, except such as are maritime torts, that is, such as are committed on the high seas, or on waters within the ebb and flow of the tide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(i)n regard to torts I have always understood, that the jurisdiction of the admiralty is exclusively dependent upon the locality of the act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.