The Santa Maria’s Empirical Analysis
23 U.S. 431 · 1825
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably Briggs v. Pennsylvania Railroad (1948), Boston Sand & Gravel Co. v. United States (1928)
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 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 Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · Himely v. Rose · The Diana · The Brig Concord
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Damages are often given by way of interest for the illegal seizure and detention of property; and, indeed, in cases of tort, if given at all, interest partakes of the very nature of damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.