Peacock v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
284 federal appellate · 81 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 852 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Harris Trust and Savings Bank As Trustee for the Ameritech Pension Trust v. Salomon Smith Barney Inc (2000), Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. v. Henson (2002)
284 federal appellate · 81 district · 19 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
reviewedUnited States v. Darryl Covington (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 63 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co.
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 852 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) to permit disposition by a single court of claims that are, in varying respects and degrees, factually interdependent; and (2) to enable a court to function successfully, that is, to manage its proceedings, vindicate its authority, and effectuate its decrees.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the judicial power would be incomplete and entirely inadequate to the purposes for which it was conferred by the Constitution.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to impose an obligation to pay an existing federal judgment on a person not already liable for that judgment.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.