Hamburg-American Line Terminal & Navigation Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
277 U.S. 138 · 1928
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1971 · most notably Clark v. Uebersee Finanz-Korp. (1947), Kaufman v. Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. (1952)
3 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Behn, Meyer & Co. v. Miller
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In No. 4 [the case at bar] the petition fails clearly to show what action was taken by the United States. It does allege that the property was taken and used and to that extent discloses adequate ground for recovery. It ought to be made more certain by amendment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If title to the vessels described in cause No. 5 [the case at bar] was actually taken, the United States became liable for their value. For any use of such vessels before acquisition of title the United States should pay. The allegations of”
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.