Norton Assignee v. Switzer’s Empirical Analysis
93 U.S. 355 · 1876
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 13 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. (1959), Burton v. United States (1905)
20 federal appellate · 13 district · 9 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 Stevens v. Townsend · Reade v. . Waterhouse · Penniman v. Norton
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such a lien does not arise in a contract for materials and supplies furnished to a vessel in her home port, and in respect to such contracts it is competent for the States, under the decisions of this court, to create such liens as their legislatures may deem just and expedient, not amounting to a regulation of commerce, and to enact reasonable rules and regulations prescribing the mode of their enforcement,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Glide“but in all cases where a maritime lien arises, the original jurisdiction to' enforce the same by a proceeding in rem is exclusive in the District Courts of the United States, as provided in the ninth section of the Judiciary Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Glide“[T]he jurisdiction of the admiralty courts to enforce a maritime lien is exclusive, and cannot be exercised in any other mode than by a proceeding in rem .”
1 later decision 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.