Carbone v. Carbone’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
November 1948
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * There is a clear distinction between immunity from the service of civil process and immunity from arrest or other interference with personal freedom. The principle of international law which grants an ambassador immunity from suit in the country to which he is accredited rests upon the reason that the ambassador is not to be interfered, with or coerced by any of the powers inherent in the sovereignty to-which he is accredited. A country through which he is merely passing to or from the country to which he is accredited owes him only the duty not to prevent him from discharging his diplomatic function by restraint on his personal liberty. As stated by Oppenheim (1 Internat.Law [3d Ed.] 574): ‘ * * * there ought to be no “The same opinion is expressed by Mr. Baron Huddleston in New Chile Gold Mining Co. v. Blanco, 4 T.L.Rep. 349.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bergman v. De Sieyes
How this case has been treated — in progress
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