The Steamer St. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
66 U.S. 522 · 1861
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Panama Co v. Johnson (1924), Garrett v. Co (1942)
10 federal appellate · 8 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 Bank of the United States v. Deveaux · Elliott v. Lessee of Peirsol · The General Smith · Peyroux v. Howard
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. The Moses Taylor · The Lottawanna“Extension of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; libel in rem or in personam; exclusive remedy; waiting period 51 The admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States shall extend to and include all cases of damage or injury, to person or property, caused by a vessel on navigable water, notwithstanding that such damage or injury be done or consummated on land”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“alien to the purposes for which the admiralty power was created, and forms no part of the code of laws which it was established to administer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Lottawanna
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.