Ex parte Chow Chok’s Empirical Analysis
161 F. 627 · 1908
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably United States of v. Alejandro Pacheco-Medina (2000), Correa v. Thornburgh (1990)
25 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 Fong Yue Ting v. United States · Japanese Immigrant Case · Nishimura Ekiu v. United States · United States v. Ju Toy · Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Taggart
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deprived of [his] liberty and prevented from going at large within the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Enter” means more than the mere act of crossing the border line. Those who seek to enter in the sense of the law, and those the policy of the law seeks to prevent from entering, are those who come to stay permanently, or for a period of time, or to go at large and at will within the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t cannot logically be said that [the aliens] are Chinese persons found unlawfully in the United States . . . . Logically, they are Chinese persons seeking to enter the United States . . . .”
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.