MacLeod v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
229 U.S. 416 · 1913
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013 · most notably Lauritzen v. Larsen (1953), Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino (1964)
26 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMacleod v. United States
Relationships
Relies on De Lima v. Bidwell · The American Insurance Company v. 356 Bales of Cotton David Canter · Alexander Murray v. Charming Betsy · Hartranft v. Wiegmann · Dooley v. United States
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute should be construed in the light of the purpose of the government to act within the limitation of the principles of international law, . . . and it should not be assumed that Congress proposed to violate the obligations of this country to other nations. . . .”
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.