Ex parte Lam Pui’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 7 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Do you remember seeing me in Hie Market Street Laundry about a month ago? Yes. How long have you been working there? I am not working there. T am only stopping there, looking for some kind of business. When I saw you there a month ago, and you were working there, you were helping Lem Thung, because he was sick; is that the idea? You mean to tell me that, since you have been in that laundry, you have never done a tap of work of any kind? Except sometimes 1 take up laundry and put it in the right place. What were you doing in that laundry when I saw you a month ago? Nothing. Does Lem Thung charge you for board down there? No.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex parte Lam Fuk Tak

2. ““Section 21. That in case the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall be satisfied that an alien has been found in the United States in violation of this act, or that' an alien is subject to deportation under the provisions of this act or of any law of the United States, he shall cause such alien within the period of three years after landing or entry therein to be taken into custody and returned to the .country whence he came, as provided by Section 20 of 'this act.” Comp. St. 1913, § 4270.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States ex rel. Lem Him v. Prentis