Doreau v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.2d 721 · 1948
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1966 · most notably Savorgnan v. United States (1950), Lehmann v. Acheson (1953)
18 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 801
Relies on Perkins v. Elg · Mackenzie v. Hare · Dos Reis ex rel. Camara v. Nicolls · Attorney General v. Ricketts · 75 F. Supp. 268 - In Re Gogal
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If by reason of extraordinary circumstances amounting to true duress, an American national is forced into the formalities of citizenship of another country, the sine qua non of expatriation is lacking. There is not authentic abandonment of his own nationality. His act, if it can be called his act, is involuntary. He cannot be truly said to be manifesting an intention of renouncing his country. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . the forsaking of American citizenship, even in a difficult situation, as a matter of expediency, with attempted excuse of such conduct later when crass material considerations suggest that course, is not duress.”
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.