In re Knight’s Empirical Analysis
171 F. 299 · 1909
Citation profile
10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1938
10 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 In re Camille · In re Saito · In re Buntaro Kumagai
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Hereafter no state court or court of the United States shall admit Chinese to citizenship; and all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Para““The provisions of this title shall apply to aliens being free white persons, and to aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Para
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.