The Palmyra Depau’s Empirical Analysis
23 U.S. 502 · 1825
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1964 · most notably Forgay v. Conrad (1848), Oliver Iron Mining Co. v. Lord (1923)
13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ray v. Law · Young v. Grundy · Gibbons v. Ogden · The Gran Para the Consul General of Portugal
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The damages remain undisposed of, and an appeal may still lie upon that part of the decree awarding damages. The whole' cause is not, therefore, finally determined in the Circuit Court; and we are of opinion that the cause cannot be. divided so as to bring up successively distinct parts of 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.