Espindola v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2006
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 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1432 (§ 321 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1433 (§ 322 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1503 (§ 360 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on United States v. Menasche · Aure v. United States · Yanish v. Barber · In re Naturalization Filed by Howard ex rel. Applegarth
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sec. 314. A child born outside of the United States of alien parents * * * becomes a citizen of the United States upon fulfillment of the following conditions: * * * (b) The naturalization of the surviving parent if one of the parents is deceased * * * and if — (d) Such naturalization takes place while such child is under the age of eighteen years; and (e) Such child is residing in the United States at the time of the naturalization of the parent * * * or thereafter begins to reside permanently in the United States while under the age of eighteen years.”
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.