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255 U.S. 216 · 1921
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 10 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Ex parte Republic of Peru (1943), Rosenberg Bros. v. Curtis Brown Co. (1923)
74 federal appellate · 10 district · 16 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 United States v. Lee · South Carolina v. United States · The United States v. Jonah Crosby · the Schooner Exchange v. McFaddon Others · In re Muir
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he decree ... declare[d] [that the vessel was] not subject to any such process[,] ... direct[ed] her release ..., [and] end[ed] the suit as effectually as if it formally dismissed the libel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Minott v. Brunello“general ship engaged in the common carriage of merchandise by water, for hire”
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.