Charles Neely v. William Henkel’s Empirical Analysis
180 U.S. 109 · 1901
Citation profile
164 federal appellate · 33 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 347 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Munaf v. Geren (2008), Downes v. Bidwell (1901)
164 federal appellate · 33 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.
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 347 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U.S.] citizenship does not give [the appellant] an immunity to commit crime in other countries”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“have no relation to crimes committed without the jurisdiction of the United States against the laws of a foreign country.” Id. at 123 , 21 S.Ct. at 307 . Merely because the fugitive is a United States citizen”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The power of Congress to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution ... all [powers] vested in the Government of the United States ... includes the power to enact such legislation as is appropriate to give efficacy to any stipulations which it is competent for the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to insert in a treaty with a foreign power”
5 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.