Delany v. Moraitis’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.2d 129 · 1943
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably United States ex rel. Potash v. District Director of Immigration & Naturalization (1948), United States ex rel. Leong Choy Moon v. Shaughnessy (1954)
21 federal appellate · 3 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. American Trucking Associations · Sorrells v. United States · Armstrong Paint & Varnish Works v. Nu-Enamel Corp. · United States v. Kirby · United States v. Katz
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘country,’ in the expression ‘foreign country,’ is ambiguous. It may be taken to mean foreign territory or a foreign government. In the sense of territory, it may embrace all the territory subject to a foreign sovereign power. When referring more particularly to a foreign government, it may describe a foreign state in the international sense, that is, one that has the status of an international per son with the rights and responsibilities under international law of a member of the family of nations; or it may mean a foreign government which has authority over a particular area or subject-matter, although not an international person but only a component part, or a political subdivision, of the larger international unit. The term ‘foreign country’ is not a technical or artificial one, and the sense in which it is used in a statute must be determined by reference to the purpose of the particular legislation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`It must be remembered... that the deportation of an alien is not a mere matter of taking him beyond the seas and setting him down on foreign soil. It must be carried out through arrangements made with the foreign government.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ali v. Ashcroft · Ali v. Ashcroft“a man's `country' is more than the territory in which its people live. The term is used generally to indicate the state, the organization or social life which exercises sovereign power in behalf of the people.”
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.