The Nassau’s Empirical Analysis
71 U.S. 634 · 1866
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1999
1 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Mary Stafford Master · The Frances, Boyer, Master. ( Thompson and Al. .)
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the practice with, civilized nations, when a vessel is captured at sea as a prize of war, to bring her into some convenient port of the government of the captor for adjudication. The title is not transferred by the mere fact of capture, but it is the duty of the captor to send his prize home, in order that judicial inquiry may be instituted to determine whether the capture was lawful, and, if so, to settle all intervening claims of property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Appam
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.