Harrison v. Vose’s Empirical Analysis
50 U.S. 372 · 1850
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Keck v. United States (1899), Capital National Bank v. Coldwater National Bank (1899)
38 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Antelope the Vice-Consuls of Spain and Portugal · People ex rel. Attorney General v. Utica Insurance
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““'raking- this rale of construction with us, the inquiry is whether the words ‘arrival at a foreign port,’ as used in the first portion of the second section, and on which arrival the master is to deposit his papers, mean any touching at a foreign port for any time, however short, or for any purpose or reason whatever, or only on arrival to transact commercial business, followed in due time by an entry of the vessel. Sometimes the arrival of a vessel refers, undoubtedly, to her coming into a port from any cause, or for any purpose, and for any period. It is admitted that this may be the literal and general meaning of the term witli lexicographers, but in several cases it is used to denote a coming in for certain special objects of business, and to be followed by remaining there so long as to render an entry of the vessel proper, and a deposit of her papers with a consul prudent and useful. * * * On examination, the words ‘arrive’ and ‘arrival,’ when used in respect to matters of this kind in acts of congress, will, in several instances, appear to be used in the last sense, as applicable only to an arrival to enter and. clear for business. Thus, in the thirteenth section of the act of December 31, 1792, the requirement that a temporary register of a vessel, instead of one lost, shall be delivered up ‘within ten days after her-first arrival within the district to which she belongs,’ means, not touching or inquiring only, but arriving to enter and transact business. Toler v. Whi”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That it shall be the duty of every master or commander of a ship or vessel belonging to citizens of the United States, * * * on his arrival at a foreign port, to deposit his register, sea letter, and Mediterranean passport with the consul, vice consul, commercial agent, or vice commercial agent, if any there be ai such port.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a clearance cannot be produced unless the vessel has first entered at the custom-house”
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.