United States v. Lee Huen’s Empirical Analysis
118 F. 442 · 1902
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2018
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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.
Relationships
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States · Wong Wing v. United States · Fong Yue Ting v. United States · United States v. Wong Kim Ark
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the law the Chinese person must be adjudged unlawfully within the United States unless he ‘shall establish by affirmative proof, to the satisfaction of such justice, judge, or commissioner, his lawful right to remain in the United States.’ As applied to aliens, there is no question of the validity of that provision; and the treaty, the legislation, and the circumstances considered, compliance with its requirements cannot be avoided by the mere assertion of citizenship. The facts on which such a claim is rested must be made to appear. And the inestimable heritage of citizenship is not to be conceded to those who seek to avail themselves of it under pressure of a particular exigency, without being able to show that it was ever possessed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Tire defendant is not required to satisfy the prejudiced, the capricious, the unreasonable, or the arbitrary mind; but he must satisfy the judgment of a reasonable man, acting honestly and with good judgment, and without prejudice or bias. The commissioner may not arbitrarily or capriciously, or against reasonable, unimpeached and credible evidence, containing no element of inherent improbability, and which is uncontradicted in its material points, and susceptible of but one fair construction, refuse to he satisfied. When clearly, from1 the evidence, the judicial mind ought to be satisfied, in the eye of the law it is satisfied.” “By ‘satisfactory evidence,’ which is sometimes called ‘sufficient evidence,’ ” says Greenleaf (1 Greenl. Ev. § 2), “is intended, that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.