Edye v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
112 U.S. 580 · 1884
Citation profile
321 federal appellate · 138 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,029 later decisions (143 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations (1974)
321 federal appellate · 138 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 24 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Brown v. Maryland · United States v. Schooner Peggy · State Railroad Tax Cases Taylor Collector et al. v. Secor et al.
Cited together with Whitney v. Robertson · James Foster v. David Neilson · Baker v. Carr · Breard v. Greene · United States v. Rauscher
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 1,029 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A treaty is primarily a compact between independent nations. It depends for the enforcement of its provisions on the interest and the honor of the governments which are parties to it. If these fail, its infraction becomes the subject of international negotiations and reclamations, so far as the injured party chooses to seek redress, which may in the end be enforced by actual war. It is obvious that with all this the judicial courts have nothing to do and can give no redress.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage“to regulate commerce with foreign nations”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.