Compagnie Francaise de Navigation a Vapeur v. Louisiana State Board of Health’s Empirical Analysis
186 U.S. 380 · 1902
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco (1967), Kansas v. Hendricks (1997)
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · New Orleans Gas Co. v. Louisiana Light Co. · Railroad Company v. Husen · Henderson v. Mayor of the City of New York Commissioners of Immigration v. North German Lloyd · State of Louisiana v. State of Texas
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it is plain from the face of the treaty that the provision as to the certificate was not intended to abrogate the quarantine power, since the concluding section of the article in question expressly subjects the vessei holding the certificate to quarantine detention if, on its arrival, a general quarantine had been established against all ships coming from the port whence the vessel holding the certifica!o had sailed. In other words, the treaty, having provided the certificate and given it effect under ordinary conditions, proceeds to subject the vessel holding the certificate to quarantine, if, on its arrival, such restriction had been established in consequence of infection deemed to exist at the port of departure. Nothing in. the text of the treaty, wo think, gives even color to the suggestion that it was intended to deal with the exercise by the government of0the United States of its power to legislate for the safety and health of its people, or to render the exertion of such power nugatory by exempting the vessels of the kingdom of Greece, when coming to the United States, from the operation of such laws. In other words, the treaty was made subject to the enactment of such health laws as the local conditions might evoke, not paramount to them, especially where the restriction imposed upon the vessel is based, not upon the conditions existing at the port of departure, but upon the presence of an infectious or contagious malady at the port of arrival within the United ”
1 later decision 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.