Brassert v. Biddle’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.2d 134 · 1945
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2009
4 federal appellate ·
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. § 501
Relies on Perkins v. Elg · United States v. Ness · Boyd v. Nebraska ex rel. Thayer · Perkins v. ELG · Dolan 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The District Court raised question of its own jurisdiction to proceed under 8 U.S.C.A. § 903 , which provides for a judicial declaration that one is ‘a national of the United States’ upon denial of rights and privileges as such, pointing out that ‘national’ may be a more inclusive term than ‘citizen.’ But it concluded that its jurisdiction was complete under the Declaratory Judgments Act. 28 U.S.C.A. § 400 ; Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325, 350 , 59 S.Ct. 884 , 83 L.Ed. 1320 , modifying and affirming 69 App.D.C. 175 , 99 F.2d 408 . While we agree that the latter Act might, be a sufficient basis for the judgment we think it too narrow a reading of the procedure set forth in the Nationality Act itself to hold it unavailable here. One of the two statutory definitions of ‘national of the United States’ is ‘a citizen of the United States,’ 8 U.S.C.A. § 501 (b), and, when nationality depends upon and is identical with citizenship, § 903 appears to be applicable according to its direct wording.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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