Dickhoff v. Shaughnessy’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1976
4 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1254 (§ 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Galvan v. Press · Fong Haw Tan v. Phelan · In re Rudder · Colyer v. Skeffington · Johnson v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 101(f), while not, defining the term ‘good moral character,’ provides standards as an aid for determining whether a person is one of good moral character within the meaning of those provisions of the bill which require that good moral character be established for certain periods in connection with a person’s eligibility for certain benefits. By providing who shall not be regarded as a person of good moral character, it is believed that a greater degree of uniformity will be obtained in the application of the ‘good moral character’ tests under the provisions of the bill.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Senator McCarran, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and sponsor of this bill which continued the old law’s provisions as to good moral character and added the exclusion of those guilty of adultery, in speaking of provisions of the old law carried into his bill, stated: ‘There has been built up a body of judicial and administrative interpretation of those provisions upon which we can rely.’ 98 Cong. Rec. 5089. * * * Thus we have, basically, a desire for uniformity and continued reliance on past judicial interpretations.””
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.