Wong Wing Foo v. McGrath’s Empirical Analysis
196 F.2d 120 · 1952
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably Olender v. United States (1954), Kehm v. Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co. (1983)
57 federal appellate · 5 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1732 · 28 U.S.C. § 1733 · 8 U.S.C. § 601
Relies on United States v. Ju Toy · Perkins v. Elg · Podea v. Acheson · McGrath v. Tadayasu Abo
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) If any person who is within the United States claims a right or privilege as a national of the United States and is denied such right or privilege by any department or independent agency, or official thereof, upon the ground that he is not a national of the United States, such person may institute an action under the provisions of section 2201 of Title 28, against the head of such department or independent agency for a judgment declaring him to be a national of the United States * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is a practical necessity for the use of [government] records to which is attached the presumption of a proper performance of official duty; and there is a great likelihood that a public official would have no memory at all respecting his action in hundreds of entries that are little more than mechanical.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Books or records of account or minutes of proceedings of any department or agency of the United States shall be admissible to prove the act, transaction or occurrence as a memorandum of which the same were made or kept.””
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.