Healy v. Backus’s Empirical Analysis
221 F. 358 · 1915
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1955
13 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States · United States v. Ju Toy · Chin Yow v. United States · Low Wah Suey v. Backus
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The objections go rather to the regularity of.the proceedings for the arrest and examination of petitioners than to the substance of the inquiry. The proceedings are by nature summary, and necessarily so. No formal charge or pleadings are required, nor does the doctrine of variance have application, provided the alien, be given sufficient information of the acts relied upon to bring him within the excluded classes to enable Mm to offer testimony at the hearing directed to be had by the warrant of arrest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Low Kwai v. Backus
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.