John Inglis v. The Trustees of the Sailor's Snug Harbour in the City of New York’s Empirical Analysis
28 U.S. 99 · 1830
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 5 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino (1964), United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)
32 federal appellate · 5 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Ass'n v. Hart's Executors · John Green v. John Liter · Respublica v. Sweers
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“birth locally within the dominions of the sovereign; and ... birth within the protection and obedience ... of the sovereign.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while ,the parents are resident there under the protection of the government, and owing a temporary allegiance thereto, are subjects by birth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is universally admitted both in English courts and in those of our own country, that all persons born within the colonies of North America, while subject to the crown of Great Britain, were natural-born British subjects....”
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.