Pandolfo v. Acheson’s Empirical Analysis
202 F.2d 38 · 1953
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1993 · most notably Perez v. Brownell (1958), Lehmann v. Acheson (1953)
24 federal appellate · 7 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 8 U.S.C. § 801
Relies on Wells v. Simonds Abrasive Co. · Mandoli v. Acheson · Dos Reis ex rel. Camara v. Nicolls · Bauer v. Clark · Podea v. Acheson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The plaintiff has the burden of proving that he is a United States citizen. He made a prima facie case by alleging and proving his birth in New York. The Government then had the burden of showing that he had expatriated himself. This it did by proof of his oath of allegiance to the King of Italy. Presumptively this oath was voluntarily taken. He then had the burden of going forward with evidence to establish that it was taken under duress.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Alata v. Dulles · Augello v. Dulles““Concededly the oath of allegiance taken by the plaintiff would operate to expatriate him if taken voluntarily, -but would not if taken under duress. Consequently the question presented by the appeal is whether the ruling that his oath was taken under duress is supportable on the facts developed at the trial. “There is no dispute as to the facts. The only testimony was given by the plaintiff; the other evidence was documentary, for the most part consisting of the plaintiff’s Italian military service record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Augello v. Dulles
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.