The Douro’s Empirical Analysis
70 U.S. 564 · 1865
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1929
7 federal appellate ·
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 Barrel v. Transportation Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An appeal Is a matter of right, and, if prayed, must be allowed, but should never be prayed without some expectation of reversal. We impose penalties when writs of error are sued out merely for delay in cases of judgments at law for damages; and, if the rule were applicable to the case before us, we should apply it.” •”
2 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.