United States v. Grundy and Thornburgh’s Empirical Analysis
7 U.S. 337 · 1806
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably United States v. A Parcel of Land Buildings Appurtenances and Improvements Known As 92 Buena Vista Avenue Rumson New Jersey (1993), Luther v. Borden (1849)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 Henderson's Distilled Spirits · Edmund Caldwell Surviving Partner of James Lynd Jr and Company v. The United States
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been proved, that in all forfeitures accruing at common law, nothing vests in the government until some legal step shall be taken for the assertion of its right, after which, for many purposes, the doctrine of relation carries back the title to the commission of the offence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where a forfeiture is given by a statute, the rules of the common law may be dispensed with, and the thing forfeited may either vest immediately, or on the performance of some particular act, as shall be the will of the legislature. This must depend upon the construction of the statute.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the property in the vessel was actually vested in the United States by the commission of the offense, then the judgment of a court, condemning the vessel, or declaring it to belong to the government, would, in fact, do nothing more than ascertain that the offense had been committed; it would not vest the thing more completely in the government, in point of right, than it was vested by the commission of the offense.””
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.