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94 U.S. 518 · 1876
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 27 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1987 · most notably The J. E. Rumbell (1893), Johnson v. Chicago & Pacific Elevator Co. (1886)
18 federal appellate · 27 district · 1 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.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It need hardly be added, that though a proceeding in rem and a petition for payment of a claim out of proceeds of a sale remaining in the registry are distinct things-the former proceeding on the ground of a lien-yet no one except an owner is entitled to payment out of the registry, unless he has a lien upon the fund therein. The court can marshall the fund only between lien-holders and owners.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ The lien during those ten days was a special privilege given to them by statute — an exceptional right. Hence, it was incumbent upon them to show that such a right existed, and, by piroof, to bring themselves within the exception. This is always the rule when a party claims a peculiar right given by a statute — a right not common to all, and which is given only when a prescribed state oí facts shall exist.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The repairs having been made on a domestic vessel in her home port, there was no lien for them by the maritime law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Underwriter
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.