Ward v. Peck’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 267 · 1855
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably Butler v. Boston & Savannah Steamship Co. (1889), People's Ferry Co. v. Beers (1857)
10 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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 The Patapsco Insurance Company v. John Southgate · Patapsco Insurance v. Southgate · The New England Insurance Company v. The Brig Sarah · Schieffelin v. New-York Insurance
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this country ... the ancient jurisdiction over petitory suits or causes of property has been retained [by courts of admiralty].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mullane
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.