Desmare v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
93 U.S. 605 · 1876
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 18 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Anderson v. Watt (1891), Harriman v. Northern Securities Co. (1905)
23 federal appellate · 18 district · 13 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 Alexander Murray v. Charming Betsy · Mitchell v. United States · Lamar Executor v. Browne et al. · United States v. Grossmayer
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before the breaking out of the late Civil War. Hie appellant was domiciled in the city of Xew Orleans, lie was a member ol‘ a commercial partnership There. There is no proof o-f any change of domicile subsequently. A domicile once existing continues until another is acquired. A person cannot be without a legal domicile somewhere. Where a change of domicile is alleged, the burden of proof rests upon the party making the allegation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Upon the issuing of General Butler’s proclamation, the legal status of New Orleans and its inhabitants with respect to the United States became changed. Before that time the former, was enemy’s territory and the latter were enemies. . . . General Butler’s proclamation was proof of the subjugation of the city and the re-establishment of the national authority. The hostile character of the territory thereupon ceased, and the process of rehabilitation began. The inhabitants were at once permitted to resume, under the regulations prescribed, their wonted commerce with other places, as if the State had not belonged to the rebel organization. The Venice, 2 Wall. 258 . But they were clothed with new duties as well as new rights.”
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.