Horn v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
243 U.S. 247 · 1917
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1968 · most notably Marcos Perez Jimenez v. Manuel Aristeguieta, Intervenor, and John E. Maguire (1962), Pothier v. (1923)
11 federal appellate · 1 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
reviewedHorn v. Mitchell (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Frank v. Mangum · Lau Ow Bew v. United States · Kurtz v. Moffitt · Bingham v. Bradley · Whitney v. George Dick
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in custody for an act done or omitted under any alleged right, title, authority, privilege, protection, or exemption claimed under the commission, order or sanction of any foreign state, or under color thereof, the validity and effect of which depend upon the law of nations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.