Geofroy v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis
133 U.S. 258 · 1890
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 46 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 369 later decisions (69 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Hines v. Davidowitz (1941), Reid v. Covert (1957)
98 federal appellate · 46 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Fort Leavenworth Co v. Lowe · Kan-Gi-Shun-Ca · Murdock v. City of Memphis · United States v. Tynen · Chew Heong v. United States
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 369 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extends to all proper subjects of negotiation with foreign governments.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As treaties are contracts between independent nations, their words are to be taken in their ordinary meaning 'as understood in the public law of nations'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is a rule, in construing treaties as well as laws, to give a sensible meaning to all their provisions if that be practicable.”
2 later decisions 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.