Boissonnas v. Acheson’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1970
12 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · Perkins v. Elg · Moser v. United States · Savorgnan v. United States · The United States v. Richard King
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““has expatriated himself by taking an . oath of allegiance to the King of Italy. “The evidence of such action consists of the following: “He joined the Italian Army on November 21, 1936, and took the oath of allegiance on June 5, 1937. He did not protest in any American consular office against serving or taking the oath. * * * He expatriated himself as aforesaid on or about June 15, 1937.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Augello v. Dulles
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.