North v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
138 U.S. 271 · 1891
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1959 · most notably Crossman v. Lurman (1904), Thompson v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance (1894)
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Freeman v. Howe · Insurance Company v. Boon · Buck v. Colbath · Watson v. Sutherland
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The main ground relied on l>,y tlie appellant Is that the relief sought should be refused because the appellee had a plain, adequate, and complete remedy at law, to wit, either the action of trespass or replevin. The answer to this ⅛ that the measure of damages in an action of trespass could not have exceeded the value of the property seized, with interest thereon from the date of the seizure, and that 1he only remedy in an action of replevin would have been limited to a recovery of the properly, and damages for its detention, with costs. It does not need argument to show Unit neither of these actions would afford as complete, prompt, and efficient a remedy for the destruction of the business, which, with the goods levied upon, constituted the appel-lee’s entire estate and pecuniary resources, as would be furnished by a court -of equity in preventing such an injury.””
2 later decisions 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.