United States v. Josef Perez’s Empirical Analysis
22 U.S. 579 · 1824
Citation profile
636 federal appellate · 64 district · 842 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,823 later decisions (69 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Tibbs v. Florida (1982), Green v. United States (1957)
636 federal appellate · 64 district · 842 state decisions — followed in 50 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
Cited together with Wade v. Hunter · United States v. Jorn · Arizona v. Washington · Illinois v. Somerville · Green v. United States
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 1,823 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think, that in all cases of this nature, the law has invested Courts of justice with the authority to discharge a jury from giving any verdict, whenever, in their opinion, taking all the circumstances into consideration, there is a manifest necessity for the act, or the ends of public justice would otherwise be defeated.”
274 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.