Semmes v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
91 U.S. 21 · 1875
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1999 · most notably Heidritter v. Elizabeth Oil-Cloth Co. (1884), Wallach v. Van Riswick (1875)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Adsit · Bigelow v. Forrest · Collier v. Whipple
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may at any time, in its discretion, and upon such terms as it may deem just, allow an amendment of a writ of error, when there is a mistake in the teste of the writ, or a seal to the writ is wanting, or when the writ is made returnable on a day other than the day of the commencement of the term next ensuing the issue of the writ, or when the statement of the title of the action or parties thereto in the writ is defective, if the defect can be. remedied by reference to the accompanying record, and in all other particulars of form: Provided, the defect has not prejudiced, and the amendment will not injure, the defendant in error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A decree of the Circuit Court ought not to be reversed for a defect in the form of process, which is amendable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hance v. Cogswell
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.