West Indian Co. v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
151 F.2d 493 · 1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1985
2 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
Relies on Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Federal Power Commission v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · General Utilities & Operating Co. v. Helvering · Natural Gas Pipeline Co of America v. Slattery · Lloyd Sabaudo Societa Anonima Per Azioni v. Elting
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It should be pointed out that the privilege of an alien seaman to land is deter mined in the first instance by the Immigration Inspector who examines the crew. Lloyd Royal Beige Societe Anonyme v. Elting, supra; * * *. Manifestly, the object of Congress in passing the legislation pertaining to alien seamen was to eliminate to the greatest degree the possibilities of aliens entering the United States in the guise of seamen.””
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.