Peugh v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 542 · 1885
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023
13 federal appellate · 5 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 Peugh v. Davis
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nothing hindered during all this time that he should pay his money; and if, as he alleges, Davis denied his right to do so, then he should have made a regular and lawful tender of the amount due. If he had done so, the interest would have ceased to run against him, and the amount that he Is now required to pay would have been diminished by more than one-half.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cheney v. Bilby
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.