The Paquete Habana’s Empirical Analysis
175 U.S. 677 · 1900
Citation profile
296 federal appellate · 94 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 810 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino (1964), Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain (2004)
296 federal appellate · 94 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Hans v. State of Louisiana · Hilton v. Guyot · Underhill v. Hernandez · Wilson
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 810 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the general assent of civilized nations.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Amd even where two acts are not in express terms repugnant, yet, if the latter act covers the whole subject of the first, and embraces new provisions, plainly showing that it was intended as a substitute for the first act, it will operate as a repeal of that act.” (Underscoring by writer.)”
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.