Peugh v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 227 · 1884
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1980 · most notably United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians (1980), Hudson v. Parker (1895)
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Dresser v. Missouri and Iowa Railway Construction Company · Edmonson v. Bloomshire · Seymour v. Freer · Railroad Company v. Blair
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any case where a writ of error may be a supersedeas, the defendant may obtain such supersedeas by serving the writ of error by lodging a copy thereof for the adverse party in the clerk’s office where the record remains, within sixty days, Sundays exclusive, after the rendering of the judgment complained of, and giving the security required by law [where any is so required] on the ( issuing of the citation. “But if he [citation having issued without security having been given, where security is required by law] desires to stay process on the judgment, he may, having served his writ of error as aforesaid [by lodging a copy thereof in the clerk’s office where the record remains, within sixty days, Sundays exclusive, after the rendering of the judgment complained of] give the security required by law within sixty days after the rendition of such judgment [as a matter of right], or afterwards with the permission of a justice or judge of the appellate court. “And in such eases where a writ of error may be a supersedeas, executions shall not issue until the expiration of ten days.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The rule established by these cases, when accurately stated, is therefore no more than that to give a justice or judge of the appellate court authority to grant a supersedeas after the expiration of the (10 days, a writ of error must have been issued and served, or an appeal allowed within that time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. Furber
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.