The Rock Island Bridge’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 213 · 1867
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 39 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably The Osceola (1903), Kermarec v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (1959)
50 federal appellate · 39 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.
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The lien and the proceeding in rem are, therefore, correlative-where one exists, the other can be taken, and not otherwise.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“confers ... upon its holder such a right in the thing he may subject it to condemnation and sale to satisfy his claim or damages.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A suit in rem to enforce a maritime lien is limited to the value of the lien itself. `The only object of the proceeding in rem, is to make [the right to the maritime lien] available—to carry it into effect. It subserves no other purpose.'”
3 later decisions 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.