The Nereide’s Empirical Analysis
13 U.S. 388 · 1815
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Lauritzen v. Larsen (1953), Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino (1964)
24 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 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 Roberts v. Opdyke · State v. Desforges · Lachomette v. Thomas · Kenton v. Leonarda
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Treaties are formed upon deliberate reflection. Diplomatic men read the public treaties made by other nations and cannot be supposed either to omit or insert an article, common in public treaties, without being aware of the effect of such omission or insertion. Neither the one nor the other is to be ascribed to inattention.”
1 later decision 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.