The Barque Island City’s Empirical Analysis
66 U.S. 121 · 1861
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 19 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably The Blackwall (1869), The Camanche (1869)
13 federal appellate · 19 district · 1 state decisions
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 Mason v. Blaireau · Silas Talbot v. Hans Frederick Seeman · Samuel Hobart v. Andrew Drogan · Stevens v. Rhinelander
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Salvors are required by the nature of their undertaking, and by a due consideration. of the large award allowed them for their services, to be vigilant in preventing, detecting, and exposing every act of plunder upon the property saved; and if they are guilty of embezzlement, whether at sea, in port, or even after the property is delivered into the custody of the law, it works a forfeiture of their claim to salvage. When secret, and purely an individual act, it is justly held not to prejudice cosalvors, who are innocent. But all may become guilty by consenting thereto, or by connivance, concealment, or encouragement afforded to the actors, or by not preventing the act when it is in their power.” The Island City, 1 Black (66 U. S.) 121, 130, 17 L. Ed. 70 .”
2 later decisions 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.