The United States v. Judge Peters’s Empirical Analysis
9 U.S. 115 · 1809
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996), Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. (1949)
28 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Matthews v. Zane's Lessee
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he language of the amendment is, that 'the judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity. ' But a suit in the admiralty is not, correctly speaking, a suit in law or in equity; but is often spoken of in contradistinction to both.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he amendment simply provides, that no suit shall be commenced or prosecuted against a state.”
3 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.