In re Spitzer’s Empirical Analysis

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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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Congress seems to have declared its will that no step, looking to the acquisition of citizenship in the United States, shall be taken by a person of alien birth prior to the attainment of his majority, on the theory that the abdication by an individual of allegiance to one sovereign and the undertaking of allegiance to another are acts of such grave solemnity that they should be performed only by persons of mature judgment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Cordaro