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72 U.S. 377 · 1866
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2011 · most notably United States v. American Ry Express Co Southeastern Express Co (1924), Quirin Haupt Kerling Burger Heinck Thiel Neubauer United States Quirin v. Cox Usa 6 (1942)
30 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 United States v. Schooner Peggy · The Brig Amy Warwick the Schooner Crenshaw the Barque Hiawatha the Schooner Brilliante · The Mary Stafford Master · The Nereide · Yeaton 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was the duty of a citizen when war1 breaks out, if it be a foreign war and he is abroad, to return without delay; and if it be a civil war, and he is a resident in the rebellious section, he should leave it as soon as practicable, and adhere to the regular established government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gates v. Goodloe
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.