Lehigh Valley R. v. Russia’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.2d 396 · 1927
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Guaranty Trust Co of New York v. United States (1938), United States v. Pink (1942)
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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 Adams Express Co. v. Croninger · Georgia Florida Alabama Railway Company v. Blish Milling Company · Oetjen v. Central Leather Co. · The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia · Underhill v. Hernandez
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]hanges in the government or the internal policy of a state do not as a rule affect its position in international law. A monarchy may be transformed into a republic, or a republic into a monarchy; absolute principles may be substituted for constitutional, or the reverse; but, though the government changes, the nation remains, with rights and obligations unimpaired.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has been recognized that diplomatic agents of one state, while in another, may commence and maintain actions on behalf of their state while they are recognized as such.... Proof of the agency or of the diplomat is dependent entirely upon the political fact of the recognition by the political department of the government.”
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.