United States v. Freights’s Empirical Analysis
274 U.S. 466 · 1927
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2004 · most notably Schirmer Stevedoring Co. v. Seaboard Stevedoring Corp. (1962), Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. United States (1949)
36 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 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 Cooper v. Reynolds · The Robert W. Parsons · Washingtonsouthern Nav Co v. Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co · Lamar v. United States · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Rice
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that [the debt] is not tangible, but it is a right of the creditor’s, capable of being attached and appropriated by the law to the creditor’s duties. The ship is a res not because it is tangible but because it is a focus of rights that in like manner may be dealt with by the law.... But if it be conceived that the Admiralty Court has jurisdiction to enforce a lien on sub-freights by a proceeding in rem, ... we do not perceive how the Court can be deprived of jurisdiction merely by answer denying that such freights are due. The jurisdiction is determined by the allegations of the libel. It may be defeated upon the trial by proof that the res does not exist. But the allegation of facts that if true make out a case entitles the party making them to have the acts tried.... Here the debtor is within the power of the Court and therefore the debt, if there is one, is also within it. (emphasis added).”
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.