The United States v. The Brig Burdett’s Empirical Analysis
34 U.S. 682 · 1835
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States v. Regan (1914), United States v. James Stinson J S (1906)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No individual should be punished for a violation of law which inflicts a forfeiture of property, unless the offense shall he established beyond reasonable doubt. This is the rule which governs a jury in all criminal prosecutions, and the rule is no less proper for the government of the court when exercising a maritime jurisdiction.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The object of the prosecution against the Burdett is to enforce a forfeiture of the vessel, and all that pertains to it, for a violation of a revenue law. This prosecution then is a highly penal one, and the penalty should not be inflicted, unless the infractions of the law shall be established beyond reasonable doubt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leonard v. Texas
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.