Acheson v. Murakami’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.2d 953 · 1949
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 1993 · most notably Tomoya Kawakita v. United States (1951), Jolley v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1971)
26 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 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 8 U.S.C. § 801
Relies on Korematsu v. United States · Ex parte Endo · Toyosaburo Korematsu v. United States
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unnecessarily cruel and inhuman treatment of these citizens (a) in the manner of their deportation for imprisonment, and (b) in their incarceration for over two and [one-] half years under conditions in major respects as degrading as those of a penitentiary * * * and (c) in applying to them the Nazi-like doctrine of inherited racial enmity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kiyama v. Rusk“as leading to a condition of mind and spirit of the American citizens imprisoned at Tule Lake Center, which makes the renunciation of citizenship not the free and intelligent choice of the appellees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kiyama v. Rusk“the most active leaders in the reign of terror which existed in the [Tule] Center during the renunciation hearings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kiyama v. Rusk
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.