Maul v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
274 U.S. 501 · 1927
Citation profile
112 federal appellate · 48 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 226 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Nathanson v. United States (1933), United States v. Lee (1927)
112 federal appellate · 48 district · 7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Boyd v. United States · Ford v. United States · United States v. Lee · American Banana Company v. United Fruit Company
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 226 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Officers of the customs or of the Coast Guard, and agents or other persons authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, or appointed for that purpose in writing by a collector may at any time go on board of any vessel or vehicle at any place in the United States or within four leagues of the coast of the United States, without as well as within their respective districts, to examine. » * *»”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no limitation upon the right of the sovereign to seize without a warrant vessels registered under its laws, similar to that imposed by the common law and the Constitution upon the arrest of persons and upon the seizure of “papers and effects.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“common to all nations and foreign to none”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jack · State v. Jack
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.