Spector v. Landon’s Empirical Analysis
209 F.2d 481 · 1954
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023
7 federal appellate ·
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. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on United States v. Spector · United States ex rel. Ross v. Wallis · Caranica v. Nagle · 47 F. Supp. 201 - United States Ex Rel. Janavaris v. Nicolls
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No cases have been found by counsel holding that a deportation warrant becomes invalid or unenforceable through mere lapse of time.... There are a number of decisions in habeas corpus to the effect that the right to hold the alien in custody under a deportation luarrant persists for no more than a reasonable period. But such holdings lend no color to the contention made here.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“affords a defendant no opportunity to have the court which tries him pass on the validity of the order of deportation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“deportation order had spent its force or become functus officio by virtue of unexcused lapse of time.”
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.