Pratt v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
60 U.S. 359 · 1856
Citation profile
12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1948
12 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These maritime liens in the coasting business and in the business upon the lakes and rivers are greatly increasing; and, as they are tacit and secret, are not to be encouraged, but should be strictly limited to the necessities of commerce which created them. Any relaxation of the law in this respect will tend to perplex and embarrass business, rather than furnish facilities to carry it forward.””
2 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.