Orleans Henry Forsyth v. Thomas Phoebus’s Empirical Analysis
36 U.S. 175 · 1837
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 43 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2003 · most notably Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford (1935), Burrus (1890)
31 federal appellate · 43 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 The Propeller Genesee Chief Pierce Kelsey Cheney Hunter Swan Clark Strong v. Fitzhugh Littlejohn Peck · Eber Ward Survivor Owner of the Steamboat Detroit v. Charles Thompson · The Steam-Boat Thomas Jefferson · Peyroux v. Howard
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In that case, the repairs of the vessel for which the state laws created a lien, were made at New Orleans, on tide waters. The contract was treated as a maritime contract; and the lien under the state laws was enforced in the admiralty, upon the ground that the court, under such circumstances, had jurisdiction of the contract as maritime; and then the lien, being attached to it, might be enforced according to the mode of administering remedies in the admiralty. The local laws can never confer jurisdiction on the courts of the United States. They can only furnish rules to ascertain the rights of parties; and thus assist in the administration of the proper remedies, where the jurisdiction is vested by the laws of the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The J. E. Rumbell · The Glide“the admiralty has no jurisdiction at all in matters of account between part owners,”
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.