The Oconee’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is, however, further urged on behalf of the foreign supply lienors that a mortgage cannot take precedence over a lien for supplies impressed by the laws of another country, since the act cannot have extraterritorial effect. In the case at bar the vessel in question was an American vessel, and ‘Congress, having created * * * this species of property, and conferred upon it its chief value,’ may also regulate and determine ‘the rights * * * of all persons dealing therein.’ White’s Bank [of Buffalo] v. Smith, 7 Wall. [646] 656, 19 L.Ed. 211 . Under the English maritime law neither of the foreign petitioners would have been entitled to a lien, and while under the maritime laws of the United States they would have been so entitled, Congress has, by the act in question, made such lien subordinate to that of the preferred mortgage, and petitioners seeking relief in an American court are bound by the law of the forum. The Scotland, 105 U.S. [24], at pages 31, 32, 26 L.Ed. 1001 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brandon v. S. S. Denton