Dorr v. Pacific Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
20 U.S. 581 · 1822
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1977
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Pollard and Pickett v. Dwight et al. · William Williams v. George Armroyd · Croudson v. Leonard · The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria v. Wilson.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and lastly, it is agreed that if the above vessel, upon a regular survey, should be thereby declared unseaworthy, by reason of her being unsound or rotten, or incapable of prosecuting her voyage on account of her being unsound or rotten,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“parties may by compact adopt that or any other, as the criterion for deciding on their relative rights . . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“inquire into their motives or prudence in doing so.”
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.