William Pease v. John Peck Surviving Partner of the Firm of Peck and Walton’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 595 · 1855
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2010 · most notably Erie Co v. Tompkins (1938), Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. (1941)
29 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 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 United States Amedy · The United States v. Richard Johns · Doe Ex Demise of William Patterson v. Elisha Winn · State v. Carr
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases where there is a settled construction of the laws of a state by its highest judicature, established by admitted precedent, it is the practice of the courts of the United States to receive and adopt it without criticism or further inquiry.” Pease v. Peck, 18 How. 595 , 598, 15 L. Ed. 518 .”
5 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.