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80 F. 153 · 1897
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1932
3 federal appellate · 4 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.
Relationships
Relies on The "Margaret." · The L. P. Dayton
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The difficulty arises not in the law, but ill the ascertainment of the facts from the evidence, which in cases like the present is usually conflicting.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Nettie Quill · The El Rio
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.