Wititaker Wright v. William Henkel’s Empirical Analysis
190 U.S. 40 · 1903
Citation profile
166 federal appellate · 96 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 537 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Schlunk (1988), Collins v. Loisel (1922)
166 federal appellate · 96 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Ex parte Virginia · United States v. Wong Kim Ark · United States v. Rauscher · Anderson v. Dunn · Ex parte Robinson
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 537 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are unwilling to hold that the Circuit Courts possess no power in respect to admitting to bail other than as specifically vested by statute, or that, while bail should not ordinarily be granted in cases of foreign extradition, those courts may not in any case, and whatever the special circumstances, extend that relief.””
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The demanding government, when it has done all that the treaty and the law require it to do, is entitled to the delivery of the accused on the issue of the proper warrant, and the other government is under obligation to make the surrender; an obligation which it might be impossible to fulfill if release on bail were permitted. The enforcement of the bond, if forfeited, would hardly meet the international demand; and the regaining of the custody of the accused obviously would be surrounded with serious embarrassment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The general principle of international law is that in all cases of extradition the act done on account of which extradition is demanded must be considered a crime by both parties.” 190 U.S. at 58 , 23 S.Ct. at 785 .”
4 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.