Caplan v. Vokes’s Empirical Analysis
649 F.2d 1336 · 1981
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Quinn v. Robinson (1986), Emami v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California (1987)
39 federal appellate · 6 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 United States v. Marion · Toussie v. United States · Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. v. City of Chicago · Fernandez v. Phillips · Collins v. Loisel
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the extradition judge had jurisdiction to conduct extradition proceedings; (2) the extradition court had jurisdiction over the fugitive; (3) the treaty of extradition was in full force and effect; (4) the crime fell within the terms of the treaty; and (5) there was competent legal evidence to support a finding of extraditability.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient according to the law of the requested Party ... to justify the committal for trial of the person sought if the offense of which he is accused had been committed in the territory of the requested Party ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The principle of specialty mandates a careful culling of extraditable offenses from non-extraditable offenses,”
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.