Nishimura Ekiu v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
142 U.S. 651 · 1892
Citation profile
239 federal appellate · 128 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 718 later decisions (92 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr (2001), Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath (1951)
239 federal appellate · 128 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Edye v. Robertson · John Den James Murray and John Kayser v. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company John Den James B Murray et al. · Chae Chan Ping v. United States · United States v. Hartwell
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 718 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to such persons, the decisions of executive or administrative officers, acting within powers expressly conferred by Congress, are due process of law.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is doubtless entitled to a writ of habeas corpus to ascertain whether the restraint is lawful.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o establish a uniform rule of naturalization”
7 later decisions 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.