Terlinden v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis
184 U.S. 270 · 1902
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 34 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 344 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr (2001)
160 federal appellate · 34 district · 18 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. Rauscher · James Foster v. David Neilson · Ornelas v. Ruiz · Holmes v. Jennison
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 344 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Extradition may be sufficiently defined to be the surrender by one nation to another of an individual accused or convicted of an offense outside of its own territory, and within the territorial jurisdiction of the other, which, being competent to try and to punish him, demands his surrender. (Emphasis added.)”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts ought not to interfere with the conclusions of the political department in that regard.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * [W]e think that on the question whether this treaty has ever been terminated, governmental action in respect to it must be regarded as of controlling importance.”
6 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.