Stairs v. Peaslee’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 521 · 1855
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1965 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Seven-Up Bottling Co. of Miami, Inc. (1953), Wititaker Wright v. William Henkel (1903)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Bartlett v. Kane · Philip Greely Junior v. William Thompson
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the word “country” in the revenue laws of the United States has always been construed to embrace all the possessions of a foreign state, however widely separated, .which are subject to the same supreme executive and legislative control.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * *. What markets within these dominions were the principal ones for an article of this description was a question of fact, not of law * * *.”
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.