Steamboat Burns’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 237 · 1869
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1910
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.
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 said that the statute of Missouri allows the steamboat to be sued by name, and allows a defense to be made by the owner in the name of the vessel. But the states cannot in this manner confer on an inanimate object, without sense or reason or legal capacity, the right to prosecute legal proceedings in the federal courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gallivan v. Jones
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.