Commander-in-chief’s Empirical Analysis
68 U.S. 43 · 1863
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 25 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1977 · most notably Cromwell v. County of Sac (1876), Gould v. Evansville and Crawfordsville Rr Co (1875)
9 federal appellate · 25 district · 5 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 The Propeller Commerce
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all libels in causes of. civil and maritime jurisdiction, whether in rem or in personam,' the answers of or on behalf of the respondent or claimant to the libels and interrogatories shall be on oath or solemn affirmation; and all answers shall be full and explicit and distinct to each separate article and separate allegation in the libel, in the same order as numbered in the libel, and shall also answer in like manner or except to each interrogatory propounded by the libellant. But this rule shall not apply to cases where the sum or value in dispute does not exceed fifty dollars, exclusive of costs, unless the District Court shall be of opinion that the proceedings prescribed herein are necessary for the purposes of justice in the case before the court.””
1 later decision 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.