territorial principle
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 289 U.S. 137 - United States v. Flores · 1933Most cited · 270 citing opinions
the criminal jurisdiction of the United States is in general based on the territorial principle, and criminal statutes of the United States are not by implication given an extraterritorial effect; but that principle has never been thought to be applicable to a merchant vessel which, for purposes of the jurisdiction of the courts of the sovereignty whose flag it flies to punish crimes committed upon it, is deemed to be a part of the territory of that sovereignty, and not to lose that character when in navigable waters within the territorial limits of another sovereignty
How often courts cite the case defining “territorial principle”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “territorial principle” — 270 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.