Lapides v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.2d 619 · 1949
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably American Communications Ass'n v. Douds (1950), Schneider v. Rusk (1963)
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
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. § 800
Relies on Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Hirabayashi v. United States · United States v. Petrillo · Angel v. Bullington
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person who has become a national by naturalization shall lose his nationality by ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“regulates eligibility and procedure for becoming a citizen. It increases the number of citizens but does not divide them into classes. By authorizing Congress to prescribe who may be naturalized and how, the Constitution does not authorize it to deprive citizens either at or after naturalization of liberties that other citizens enjoy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lapides v. Clark““We wonder what justification there can be for this additional and needless litigation with all its trouble, expense and delay, which the law so much abhors.””
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.