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53 U.S. 443 · 1851
Citation profile
152 federal appellate · 72 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 549 later decisions (110 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Payne v. Tennessee (1991), Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover (1959)
152 federal appellate · 72 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 23 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Gibbons v. Ogden · The New Jersey Steam Navigation Company v. The Merchants' Bank of Boston · Nathaniel Waring v. Thomas Clarke
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 549 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n admiralty and marine cases * * * Congress may * * * give either party right of trial by jury * * *,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““I have always understood that the .-jurisdiction of the admiralty is exclusively dependent upon the locality of the act. The admiralty has not, and never (I believe) deliberately, claimed to have any jurisdiction over torts, except •vie!) as are maritime torts; that is. snch as are committed on the high seas, or on waters within the ebb and flow of the tide.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. The Alaska · The Toledo““Whenever a collision happens with a sailing vessel, and it appears that there was no other lookout on board the steamboat hut the helmsman, or that such lookout was not stationed in a proper place, or not actually and vigilantly employed in his duty, it must he regarded as prima facie evidence that it was occasioned by her fault.””
3 later decisions 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.