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75 U.S. 507 · 1869
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1980 · most notably Luria v. United States (1913), Four Hundred and Forty-Three Cans of Frozen Egg Product v. United States of America (1912)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all seizures on land or on waters not navigable, and all suits instituted to recover penalties and forfeitures incurred, except for seizures on navigable waters, must be prosecuted as other common-law suits, and can only be removed into this court by writ of error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 79-1517“Where the seizure was made on navigable waters, the case belongs to the instance side of the subordinate court; but where the seizure was made on land, the suit is one at common law, and the claimants are entitled to a trial by jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 79-1517
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.