Peters v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
98 U.S. 56 · 1878
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Hefner v. Northwestern Mut Life Ins Co (1887), Brown v. Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co. (1888)
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Dial v. Reynolds · Noonan v. Lee · Duvall v. Craig · Corning v. . Smith
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one suit cannot thus be. injected into another.”
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.