Carlson v. Landon’s Empirical Analysis
186 F.2d 183 · 1950
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1990 · most notably Carlson v. Landon (1952), Hunt v. Roth (1981)
22 federal appellate · 1 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 50 U.S.C. § 781
Relies on Whitten v. Tomlinson · United States v. Grayson · In Re Smith · United States ex rel. Potash v. District Director of Immigration & Naturalization · United States ex rel. Zapp v. District Director of Immigration & Naturalization
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. at 188. 48 The District Director of the I.N.S. had stated that he had reasonable cause to believe that Carlson's release would be prejudicial to the public interest and would endanger the welfare and safety of the United States. But this assertion was insufficient:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“some fact upon which a reasonable person could logically conclude that the denial of bail is required to protect the country or to secure the alleged alien's presence for deportation should an order to that effect be the result of the hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not give the Attorney General or the Director absolute and final power to deny bail. Instead ... [the provision] left bail to the discretion of the Attorney General rather than to his unlimited power to deny it....”
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.