Skiriotes v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
313 U.S. 69 · 1941
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 49 district · 144 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 472 later decisions (88 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943), Lauritzen v. Larsen (1953)
87 federal appellate · 49 district · 144 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Simpson v. Shepard · Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same · American Banana Company v. United Fruit Company · Blackmer v. United States · Savage v. Jones
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 472 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the United States may control the conduct of its citizens upon the high seas, we see no reason why the State of Florida may not likewise govern the conduct of its citizens upon the high seas with respect to matters in which the State has a legitimate interest and where there is no conflict with acts of Congress.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The United States is not debarred by any rule of international law from governing the conduct of its own citizens upon the high seas or even in foreign countries when the rights of other nations or their nationals are not infringed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No right of a citizen of any other state is here asserted. The question is solely between appellant and his own state.”
4 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.