In re Goldstein’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Provided, however, that no alien who, in conformity with the law in force at the date of his declaration, has declared his intention to become a citizen of the .United States shall be required to renew such declaration.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Morena · In re Anderson

2. ““It is evident that no petition for final bearing can be made except under tbe provisions of tbe present law. An applicant who bad filed one of tbe old declarations could use that at once, and hence could avoid waiting two years after filing a new declaration, but must still use the old form of declaration as a basis for bis compliance with tbe present law in other respects. This satisfies th§ requirement that no new declaration will be needed in addition to tbe old one; but does not mean that tbe old paper is of any greater effect, or bas any wider use, than tbe new one. Tbe provision that no new declaration is needed, and that the old declaration may be used, is followed by tbe provision that ‘such declaration’ must be used within seven years. These words ‘such declaration’ expressly include the declarations of that class of applicants wbo need not sign their name because they bave declarations made before tbe passage of this act. Tbe beginning of the period of seven years in such cases cannot be postponed beyond tbe date when tbe law made all old declarations in effect as if taken out on or dated from tbe day when tbe new law went in force. From that date all declarations capable of use under tbe new law are covered by a seven-year statute of limitations. Tbe Congress might bave provided that a new declaration be taken out by all applicants, or tbe law might bave been made to read that no naturalization at all should be possible, and thus repeal tbe previous statute in tot”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Lee

3. “shall be required to renew such declaration.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Morena