Hitz’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 766 · 1884
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2004 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino (1964)
16 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As it is conceded that the petitioner is not now in the diplomatic service of Switzerland, and was not when all the proceedings in the Supreme .Court of the District of Columbia •subsequent to the indictment were, had, counsel are directed to request the Secretary of State to certify whether John Hitz was at any- time accredited to- and recognized by the. government'- of the United States as. public or political agent or chargé d’affaires of the Republic of Switzerland, and if so, for what period of time, and up to and including what date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Baiz
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.