The Antelope the Vice-Consuls of Spain and Portugal’s Empirical Analysis
23 U.S. 66 · 1825
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 13 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 206 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Neil v. Biggers (1972), Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino (1964)
47 federal appellate · 13 district · 69 state decisions — followed in 23 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 The Bello Corrunes · The Josefa Segunda
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 206 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts of no country execute the penal laws of another.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged than the perfect equality of Nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another. Each legislates for itself, but its legislation can operate on itself alone * * *."”
2 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.