United States v. The Ruth Mildred’s Empirical Analysis
286 U.S. 67 · 1932
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1971 · most notably General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. United States (1932), General Import & Export Co. v. United States (1932)
23 federal appellate · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Stowell · Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co. · General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. United States · United States v. American Motor Boat K-1231
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever any licensed vessel * * * is employed in any other trade than that for which she is licensed, * * * such vessel with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, aud ihe cargo, found on board her, shall be forfeited.””
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.