Pelham v. Rose’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 103 · 1869
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably California v. Hodari D. (1991), de Bearn v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. (1914)
8 federal appellate · 5 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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.