The Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
August 2014
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
“A pirate, under the laws of nations, is an enemy of the human race. Being the enemy of all, he is liable to be punished by all. Any act which denotes this universal hostility, is an act of piracy. Not only an actual robbery, therefore, but cruising on the high seas without commission, and with intent to rob, is piracy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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