Alexander Murray v. Charming Betsy’s Empirical Analysis
1804
Citation profile
188 federal appellate · 33 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 458 later decisions (47 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1998), Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr (2001)
188 federal appellate · 33 district · 5 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.
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 458 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains.”
49 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.