Yapp v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis
26 F.3d 1562 · 1994
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Piamba Cortes ex rel. Piamba Cortes v. American Airlines, Inc. (1999), Pielage v. McConnell (2008)
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3181 (Extradition Treaties Interpretation Act of 1998) · 18 U.S.C. § 3184
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Doggett v. United States · United States v. Menasche · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'cannot complain if required to submit to such modes of trial ... as the laws of that country may prescribe for its own people, unless a different mode be provided for by treaty.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An international agreement is to be interpreted in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to its terms in their context and in the light of its object and purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Fernandez v. Bailey“Deciding this case ... also requires us to interpret the meaning of the lapse of time provision of the 1931 Extradition Treaty.”
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.