Mali v. Keeper of the Common Jail of Hudson County New Jersey’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 14 district · 8 state decisions

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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.

1. ““The treaty is a part of the supreme law of the Untied States, and has the same force and effect in New Jersey that it is entitled to elsewhere. If it gives the consul of Belgium exclusive jurisdiction over the offense which it is alleged has been committed [the offense charged was murder], within the territory of New Jersey, we see no reason why he may not enforce this right under the treaty by writ of habeas corpus in any proper court of the United States.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Thompson

2. ““It is part of the law of civilized nations that, when a merchant vessel of one country enters the ports of another for the purposes of trade, it subjects itself to the law of the place to which it goes, unless by treaty or otherwise the two countries have come to some different understanding or agreement.” Wildenhus’ Case, 120 U. S. 11 , 7 Sup. St. 387, 30 L. Ed. 565 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Murphy v. New York & Cuba Mail S. S. Co.