Isabella Gonzales v. William Williams’s Empirical Analysis
192 U.S. 1 · 1904
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 65 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Wheeler (1978), United States v. Ju Toy (1905)
53 federal appellate · 65 district · 16 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
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Civil Rights Cases · United States v. Wong Kim Ark · Japanese Immigrant Case · Nishimura Ekiu 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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as Gonzales did not come within the act of 1891, the commissioner had no jurisdiction to detain and deport her by deciding the mere question of law to the contrary; and she was not obliged to resort to the Superintendent or the Secretary.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If sha was not an alien immigrant within the intent and meaning of the act of Congress entitled ‘An act in amendment to the various acts relative to immigration and the importation of aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor,’ approved March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1084 , c. 551 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1294], the commissioner had no power to detain or deport her, and the final order of the Circuit Court must be reversed.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Isabella Gonzales, an unmarried woman, was born and resided in Porto Rico, and was an inhabitant thereof on April 11, 1899, the date of the proclamation of the Treaty of Paris (30 Stat. at L. 1754). She arrived at the Port of New York from Porto Rico August 24, 1902, when she was prevented from landing, and detained by the Immigration Commissioner at that port as an ‘alien immigrant,’ in order that she might be returned to Porto Rico if it appeared that she was likely to become a public charge. “If she was not an alien immigrant within the intent and meaning of the act of Congress * the commissioner had no power to detain or deport her, and the final order of the circuit court must be reversed.” * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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