The Hypodame’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 216 · 1867
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1932 · most notably Alexandre v. MacHan (1893), The Umbria (1897)
5 federal appellate · 12 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlio district courts have! better opportunities for examining such cases, and forming a correct conclusion, than any other. They may examine witnesses ore tenus, and, although they may not have Trinity masters to assist them, yet, in difficult cases, depending on nautical experience, the judge may call to his aid experienced masters of vessels (as is done in one district at least), whose report will greatly assist the court in coming to a correct conclusion.””
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.