United States v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
170 F. 680 · 1909
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1944
2 federal appellate · 14 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 United States v. Gleeson · Pintsch Compressing Co. v. Bergin
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That it shall be the duty of'the United States district attorneys for the respective districts, upon affidavit showing good cause therefor, to institute proceedings in any court having jurisdiction to naturalize aliens in the judicial district in which the naturalized citizen may reside at the time of bringing the suit, for the purpose of setting aside and canceling the certificate of citizenship on the ground of. fraud or on the ground that such certificate of citizenship was illegally procured.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the state court proceeded on this ground, I must hold that it erred in matters of law, and therefore that Simon’s naturalization was illegally procured.””
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.