Peyton v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
316 U.S. 350 · 1942
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 43 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 258 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2010 · most notably Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. (1978), Parker v. Brown (1943)
78 federal appellate · 43 district · 4 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 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · Adams Express Co. v. Croninger · Fair v. Kohler Die & Specialty Co. · Simon Taylor v. Joe Anderson
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 258 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether a suit arises under a law of the United States must appear from the plaintiff’s pleading, not the defenses which may be interposed to, or be anticipated by 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.