The Palmyra’s Empirical Analysis
25 U.S. 1 · 1827
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 28 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 327 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Calero-Toledo v. Pearson Yacht Leasing Co. (1974), Austin v. United States (1993)
91 federal appellate · 28 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 26 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 Locke v. The United States · The Apollon · The Marianna Flora · The Palmyra Depau
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 327 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“independent of, and wholly unaffected by any criminal proceeding in personam.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every court must be presumed to exercise those powers belonging to it, which are necessary for the promotion of public justice; and we do not doubt, that this court possesses the power to reinstate any cause, dismissed by mistake.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ Whenever a stipulation is taken in an admiralty suit, for the property subjected to legal process and condemnation, the stipulation is deemed a mere substitute for the thing itself, and the stipulators liable to the exercise of all those authorities on the part of the court, which it could properly exercise if the thing itself were still in its custody. This is the known course in admiralty. It is quite a different question whether the court will, in particular cases, exercise its authority where sureties on the stipulation may be affected injuriously; that is a question addressed to its sound discretion.””
3 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.