Washington, Alexandria, & Georgetown Steam-Packet Co. v. Sickles’s Empirical Analysis
65 U.S. 333 · 1860
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 10 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States (1897), Reynolds v. Stockton (1891)
30 federal appellate · 10 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on John Murphy v. Angus Stewart Administrator of Alexander Grant · Wood v. Jackson ex dem. Genet · Gardner v. Buckbee · Marsh v. Pier
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie essential conditions under which the exception of res judicata becomes applicable are the identity of the thing demanded, the identity of the cause of the demand, and of the parties in the character in which they are litigants.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The defendants objected to these docket entries as evidence of a verdict and judgment, but insisted they were simply memoranda or minutes, from which a record of a verdict and judgment were to be made. It appears that in the courts of this District, as in Maryland, the docket stands in the place of, or perhaps is, the record, and receives here all the consideration that is yielded to the formal record in other states. These memorials of their proceedings must be intelligible to the court that preserves them, as their only evidence, and we cannot, therefore, refuse to them faith and credit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holford v. James““The record produced by the plaintiffs 'showed that the first suit was brought apparently upon the same contract as the second, and that the existence and validity of that contract might have been litigated. But the verdict might have been rendered upon the entire declaration, and without special reference to the first count. It was competent to the defendants to show the state of facts that existed at the trial, with a view to ascertain what was the matter decided upon by the verdict of the jury.””
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.