The Pizarro’s Empirical Analysis
15 U.S. 227 · 1817
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Franklin Mint Corp. (1984), 18 Cal. 4th 1 - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center v. Superior Court (1998)
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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 The Nereide · Hart v. Long · Keane v. The Brig Gloucester · Ramaley v. Leland
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is undoubtedly a very awakening circumstance, calculated to excite the vigilance, and justify the suspicions of the court. But it is a circumstance open to explanation, for it may have arisen from accident, necessity, or superior force; and, if the party in the first instance fairly and frankly explains it to the satisfaction of the court, it deprives him of no right to which he is otherwise entitled.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * Indeed, in the language of the law of nations, which is always to be consulted in the interpretation of treaties, a person domiciled in a country, and enjoying the protection of its sovereign, is deemed a subject of that country. He owes allegiance to the country, while he resides in it; temporary, indeed, if he has not, by birth or naturalization, contracted a permanent allegiance; but so fixed that, as to all other nations, he follows the character, of that country, in war as well as in peace. * * * "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nor should the captured crew have been permitted to be re-examined in court. They are bound lo declare 1he whole truth upon the first examination: and, if they then fraudulently suppress any material facts, they ought not to he indulged with an opportunity to disclose what they please, or to give color to their former statements, after counsel has been taken, and they know the pressure of the cause. Public policy and justice equally point out the necessity of an inflexible adherence to this rule.””
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.