Peete v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 581 · 1873
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1988 · most notably Parkersburg Ohio River Transp Co v. City of Parkersburg (1882), Clyde Mallory Lines v. State of Alabama State Docks Commission (1935)
2 district · 10 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that nothing herein shall enable any State to collect a duty of tonnage or impost without the consent of the Congress of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage.”
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.