United States v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
298 U.S. 483 · 1936
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably Insurance Company of the West v. United States (2001), United States v. Associated Air Transport, Inc. (1960)
29 federal appellate · 7 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 Insurance Company v. Dunham · Ralli v. Troop · Barnard v. Adams · Det Forenede Dampskibs Selskab v. Insurance Co. of North America
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a suit in rem in admiralty against ship or cargo, a suit in personam in admiralty against ship owner or cargo owner, and an action at law or a suit in equity against ship owner or cargo owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he United States is not suable without its assent, and therefore a suit in personam against it as the owner of the vessel needed the support of a permissive statute.”
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.