Wilson v. McNamee’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 572 · 1880
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 13 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2002 · most notably Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen (1917), SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros. (1938)
30 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same · Ex parte McNiel · Edwards v. Elliott · Atkins v. The Disintegrating Company
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Until further provision is made by Congress, all pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States shall continue to be regulated in conformity with the existing laws of the States respectively wherein such pilots may be, or with such laws as the States may respectively enact for the purpose.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McLain v. Lance · Warner v. Dunlap
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.