Ballester v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
220 F.2d 399 · 1955
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1985 · most notably United States v. Bazan (1955), United States v. Hoellger (1960)
20 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1426 (§ 315 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1489 (§ 357 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Edye v. Robertson · McGrath v. Kristensen · Moser v. United States · Clark v. Allen · Pigeon River Improvement, Slide & Boom Co. v. Charles W. Cox, Ltd.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) The records of the Selective Service System or of the National Military Establishment shall be conclusive as to whether an alien was relieved or discharged from such liability for training or service because he was an alien.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““I do hereby make application to be relieved, from liability for training and service in the land or naval forces of the United States, under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, in accordance with the act of Congress, approved December 20, 1941. I understand that the making of . this application to be relieved from such liability will debar me from becoming a citizen of the United States.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Savoretti v. Small““ * * * But the Supreme Court read into § 3(a) the implication that the bar to naturalization would not operate until the alien had made an intelligent choice between the alternatives presented, well knowing the legal effect of what he did. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.