Manro v. Joseph Almeida’s Empirical Analysis
23 U.S. 473 · 1825
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 14 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Swift & Co. Packers v. Compania Colombiana Del Caribe, S. A. (1950), Swift v. Tyson (1842)
32 federal appellate · 14 district · 5 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 The Apollon · Pollard and Pickett v. Dwight et al. · Del Gol v. Arnold · Knox and Crawford v. Summers and Thomas
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the defendant has concealed himself, or has absconded from the kingdom, so that he cannot be arrested, if he have any goods, merchandise, ship or vessel, on the sea, or within the ebb or flow of the sea, and within the jurisdiction of the Lord High Admiral, a warrant is to be impetrated to this effect, viz., to attach such goods or ship of D., the defendant, in whose hands soever they may be; and to cite the said D. specially as the owner, and all others who claim any right to title to them, to be and appear on a certain day to answer unto P., in a civil and maritime cause.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The last point made in argument was, whether the process of attachment could issue without an order of the judge. But here, again, we have to remark, that we can take no notice of the circumstances under which the writ actually did issue. And looking to the libel, it appears to have been its express object to obtain such an order from the court. That the process of attachment at the civil law did not issue of course, is very well known. It was obtained for contumacy, after monition; and analogy, as well as public convenience, would seem to render the judge's order necessary. Yet, we see no objection to pursuing the prayer of the libel, and issuing it simultaneously with the monition; the purpose of justice would seem to require that course.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The prayer of the libel contemplates two purposes: First, to compel appearances; second, to condemn for satisfaction. Now, although the latter may be only incidental, and not the primary object of the attachment, yet, if it he legal for the purpose of compelling appearance, the demand for the one purpose was no ground for refusing it for the other. * * * It is a mistake to consider the use of this process in tbe admiralty as borrowed from, or in imitation of, the foreign attachment under the custom of London. Its origin is to be found in the remotest history, as well of the civil as the common law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rosasco v. Thompson
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.