The Bolina’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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

1. “[W]hen once a vessel is libelled, then she is considered as in the custody of the law, and at the disposal of the court, and monitions [i.e., instructions] may be issued to persons having the actual custody, to obey the injunctions of the court.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ventura Packers, Inc. v. F/V Jeanine Kathleen · Ventura Packers, Inc. v. F/V Jeanine Kathleen

2. “[O]nce a vessel is libelled, then she is considered as in the custody of the law, and at the disposal of the court, and monitions may be issued to persons having the actual custody, to obey the injunctions of the court. . . . The district court of the United States derives its jurisdiction, not from any supposed possession of its officers, but from the act and place of seizure for the forfeiture. . . . And when once it has acquired a regular jurisdiction, I do not perceive how any subsequent irregularity would avoid it. It may render the ultimate decree ineffectual in certain events, but the regular results of the adjudication must remain.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Republic National Bank of Miami v. United States