State of Wisconsin v. Pelican Ins Co of New Orleans’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 district · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Fauntleroy v. Lum (1908), United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. (1888)
6 federal appellate · 7 district · 120 state decisions — followed in 40 states
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 Cohens v. Virginia · Paul v. Virginia · The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia · Chisholm, Ex'r. v. Georgia · Thompson v. Whitman
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essential nature and real foundation of a cause of action are not changed by recovering judgment upon it.”
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.