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98 U.S. 440 · 1878
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1979 · most notably Dimick v. Schiedt (1935), Logan v. United States (1892)
27 federal appellate · 6 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 Norris v. Jackson · United States v. Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company · Pomeroy's Lessee v. State Bank of Indiana
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“limited to a determination of the questions of law arising upon the record, and to such rulings of the Circuit Court, excepted to at the time, as may be presented by a bill of exceptions prepared as in actions at law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The "Clara." · The Gazelle & Cargo“And in finding the facts, as before provided, said court may, upon the consent of the parties who shall have appeared and put any matter of fact in issue * * * impanel a jury of not less than five and not more than twelve persons, to whom shall be submitted the issues of fact in such cause, under the direction of the court, as in cases at common law. And the finding of such jury, unless set aside for lawful cause, shall be entered of record, and stand as the finding of the court, upon which judgment shall be entered according to law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the faets as found and stated by the court below are conclusive. The .case stands here precisely as though they had been found by the verdict of a jury.”
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.