The Underwriter’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.2d 937 · 1925
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1940
2 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 Brig Ann · The Ship Richmond v. The United States · United States v. The Frank Silvia
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.
“Proceedings on seizures made on the high seas, for forfeiture under any law of the United States, may be prosecuted in any district into which the property so seized is brought and proceedings instituted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nowhere is there any authority vested in the Coast Guard to make a seizure beyond the 12-mile limit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“at any place-in the United States or within four leagues of the coast,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.