Jerome Pillow v. Truman Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
54 U.S. 472 · 1851
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably Fong Yue Ting v. United States (1893), Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Taggart (1892)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 22 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.
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutes of limitation ... are statutes of repose, and should not be evaded by a forced construction”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the seal which authenticates, and not the substance on which it is impressed; and where the court can recognize its identity, they should not be called upon to analyze the material which exhibits 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.