Leon v. Galceran’s Empirical Analysis
78 U.S. 185 · 1870
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 14 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. (1959), Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen (1917)
33 federal appellate · 14 district · 25 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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ‘saving to suitors’ clause in said sections 41(3) and 371(3) of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., was changed by substituting the words ‘any other remedy to which he is otherwise entitled’ for the words ‘the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it.’ The substituted language is simpler and more expressive of the original intent of Congress and is in conformity with rule 2 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure abolishing the distinction between law and equity.” H. Rep.No. 308, 80th Cong., 1st Sess., p. A118.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. The Hamilton · Jordine v. Walling““Services, as mariners on board the schooner Gallego, were rendered by each of the appellees in these cases, and their claims for wages remaining unpaid, on the 8th of August, 1868, they severally brought suit in personam against Joseph Maristany, the sole owner of the schooner, to recover the respective amounts due to them as wages for their services as such mariners. “Claims of this kind create a lien upon the vessel under the laws of that stale quite similar to Hie lien which arises in such cases under the maritime law. They accordingly applied to the court where the suits were returnable for writs of sequestration, and the same, having been granted and placed in the hands of the sheriff for service, were levied upon the schooner as a security to respond to the judgments which the plaintiffs in the respective suits might recover against the owner of the vessel, as the defendant in the several suits. “Such a writ when duly issued and served in such a case has substantially the same effect in the practice of the courts of that state as an attachment on mesne process in jurisdictions where a creditor is authorized to employ such a process (o create a lien upon the property of his debtor as a security to respond to his judgment. Neither the writ of sequestration nor the process of attachment is a proceeding in rem, as known and practiced in the. admiralty, nor do they bear any analogy whatever to such a proceeding, as the suit in all such cases is a suit against the owner of t”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Supreme Court shall have the power to prescribe, by general rules, the forms of process, writs, pleadings, and motions and the practice and procedure in admiralty and maritime cases in the district courts of the United States and all courts exercising admiralty jurisdiction in the Territories and Possessions of the United States.”
2 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.