Ross v. McIntyre’s Empirical Analysis
140 U.S. 453 · 1891
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 79 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 387 later decisions (63 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. (1982), Lauritzen v. Larsen (1953)
125 federal appellate · 79 district · 12 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 Geofroy v. Riggs · Cook v. United States · Dainese v. Hale · United States v. Holmes
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 387 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When . . . the representatives or officers of our government are permitted to exercise authority of any kind in another country, it must be on such conditions as the two countries may agree . . . .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * • * "yyjjPe ^ was an enlisted seaman on the American vessel, which floated the American flag, he was, within the meaning of the statute and the treaty, an American, under the protection and subject to the laws of the United States equally with the seaman who was native born.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marie · In re Linklater“extends to all proper subjects of negotiation with foreign governments.”
3 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.