In re Ezeta’s Empirical Analysis
62 F. 972 · 1894
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Ornelas v. Ruiz (1896), John McNamara v. William Henkel (1913)
18 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Benson v. McMahon · Coleman v. Tennessee · Clements v. State · In re Extradition of Wadge · In re Extradition of Wadge
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Denman, J. (page 156). “I think that in order to bring the case within the words of the Act and to exclude extradition for such an act as murder, which is one of the extradition offences, it must be shewn that the act is done in furtherance of, done with the intention of assistance, as a sort of overt act in the course of acting in a political matter, a political rising, or a dispute between two parties in the State as to which is to have the government in its hands, before it can be brought within the meaning of the words used in the Act.” Denman, J. (page 159). “The question really is whether, upon the facts, it is clear that the man was acting as one of a number of persons engaged in acts of violence of a political character with a political object, and as part of the political movement and rising in which he was taking part.” Hawkins, J. (page 165). “Now what is the meaning of crime of a political character? I have thought over this matter very much indeed, and I have thought whether any definition can be given of the political character of the crime — I mean to say, in language which is satisfactory. I have found none at all, and I can imagine for myself none so satisfactory, and to my mind so complete, as that which I find in a work which I have now before me, and the language of which for the purpose of my present judgment I entirely adopt, and that is the expression of my brother Stephen in his History of the Criminal Law of England in vol. ii, pp. 70, 71. I will not ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hether, upon the facts, it is clear that the man was acting as one of a number of persons engaged in' acts of violence of a political character with a political object, and as part of the political movement and [up]rising in which he was taking part.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sustain (a) charge under the provisions of ... (a) treaty”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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