Santovincenzo v. Egan’s Empirical Analysis
284 U.S. 30 · 1931
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Hines v. Davidowitz (1941), United States v. Pink (1942)
45 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Missouri v. Holland · Geofroy v. Riggs · Hauenstein v. Lynham · Asakura v. City of Seattle · William Tucker v. Leo Alexandroff
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a general principle of construction with respect to treaties that they shall be liberally construed, so as to carry out the apparent intention of the parties to secure equality and reciprocity between them. As they are contracts between independent nations, in their construction words are to be taken in their ordinary meaning, as understood in the public law of nations, and not in any artificial or special sense impressed upon them by local law, unless such restricted sense is clearly intended.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““4. An agreement between the United States and a foreign country with respect to the rights and privileges of citizens of the United States in such country, and of the nationals of such country within the United States, and the disposition of the property of aliens dying within the territory of the respective parties, is within the scope of the treaty-making power.” “5. Any conflicting law of a state must yield to provisions of a treaty within the scope of the treaty-making power.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The omission from Article VI of the Treaty with Persia of a clause of this sort, so frequently found in treaties of this class, must be regarded as deliberate.””
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.