Berizzi Bros Co v. The Pesaro’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 562 · 1926
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 43 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 260 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. (1949), Verlinden B. v. v. Central Bank of Nigeria (1983)
79 federal appellate · 43 district · 16 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 Hans v. State of Louisiana · In Re State of New York et al Petition of Walsh et al · Bank of Augusta v. Earle · Chisholm, Ex'r. v. Georgia · South Carolina 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 260 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the confidence that the immunities belonging to his independent sovereign station, though not expressly stipulated, are reserved by implication, and will be extended to him.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'respect the independence and dignity of every other,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the principles (of sovereign immunity) are applicable alike to all ships held and used by a government for a public purpose, and that when, for the purpose of advancing the trade of its people or providing revenue for its treasury, a government acquires, mans and operates ships in the carrying trade, they are public ships in the same sense that warships are.”
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.