United States v. Klintock’s Empirical Analysis
18 U.S. 144 · 1820
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), United States v. Sisson (1970)
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 United States v. Palmer · The Divina Pastora
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““¡3o far as this court can take any cognizance of that fact, Aury can have no power, either as a brigadier of the Mexican republic,—a republic of whose existence we know nothing,—or as generalissimo of the Floridas, a provinco in she possession of Spain, to issue commissions to authorize private or public vessels to make captures at sea.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That if any person or persons whatsoever, shall, on the high seas, commit the crime of piracy, as defined by the law of nations, ... every such offender or offenders shall ... be punished with death.”
1 later decision 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.