Fitzsimmons v. The Newport Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
8 U.S. 185 · 1808
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1942
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.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Desforges · Copley v. Flint · First Municipality of New Orleans v. Commissioners of the General Sinking Fund · Slocomb v. Real Estate Bank of Arkansas · Glover v. Doty
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And whereas it frequently happens that vessels sail for a port or place belonging to an enemy, without knowing that the same is either besieged, blockaded or invested, it is agreed that every vessel so circumstanced may be turned away from such port or place, but she shall not be detained, nor her cargo, if not contraband, be confiscated, unless, after notice, she shall again attempt to enter; but she shall be permitted to go to any other port or place she may think proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Adula
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.