United States v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2243 · 18 U.S.C. § 2244 · 18 U.S.C. § 2332 · 18 U.S.C. § 7 · 18 U.S.C. § 81
Relies on Argentine Republic v. Amerada Hess Shipping Corp. · United States v. Bowman · Christopher Strassheim v. Milton Daily · James Foster v. David Neilson · United States v. Postal
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term `self-executing' should be reserved for `international agreements' that are meant, and are specific enough to be able, to establish rights and duties of individuals directly enforceable in domestic courts.”
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.