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11 U.S. 116 · 1812
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 31 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 268 later decisions (59 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably M'Culloch v. State of Maryland (1819), Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents (2000)
89 federal appellate · 31 district · 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on The United States v. Jonah Crosby · The United States v. Judge Peters · Glass v. The Sloop Betsey · The United States v. Richard Peters, District Judge.
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 268 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the confidence that the immunities belonging to his independent sovereign station, though not expressly stipulated, are reserved by implication, and will be extended to him.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A (nation) is understood to cede a portion of (her) territorial jurisdiction where (she) allows the troops of a foreign nation to pass through (her) dominions”
2 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.