United States v. Schooner Peggy’s Empirical Analysis
5 U.S. 103 · 1801
Citation profile
478 federal appellate · 53 district · 180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,047 later decisions (93 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Cort v. Ash (1975)
478 federal appellate · 53 district · 180 state decisions — followed in 38 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 Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham · Linkletter v. Walker · Vandenbark v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson
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 1,047 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in mere private cases between individuals,”
106 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]roperty captured, and not yet definitively condemned.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The last decree of an inferior court is final in relation to the power of that court, but not in relation to the property itself, unless it be acquiesced under. The terms used in the treaty seem to apply to the actual condition of the property, and to direct a restoration of that which is still in controversy between the parties."”
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.