The Admiral’s Empirical Analysis
70 U.S. 603 · 1865
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1900
2 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any neutral vessel approaching any of said ports, or attempting to leave the same, without notice or knowledge of the establishment of such blockade, will be duly warned by the commander of the blockading forces* who will indorse on her register the fact, and the date, of such warning where such instrument was made; and if the same vessel shall again attempt to enter any blockaded port she will be captured and sent to the nearest convenient port for such proceedings against her and her cargo as prize, as may be deemed advisable.” 30 Stat. 1769 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Adula“duly warned by the commander of the blockading, forces.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Adula
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.