Whitfield v. Hanges’s Empirical Analysis
222 F. 745 · 1915
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably United States Bilokumsky v. Tod (1923), Collins v. Miller (1920)
42 federal appellate · 8 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 · Royall · Ex parte Virginia · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A full and fair hearing on the charges which threaten his deportation, and an absence of all abuse of discretion and arbitrary action by the inspector, or other executive officer, aré indispensable to the lawful deportation of an alien. Where, by the abuse of the discretion, or the arbitrary action of the inspector or other .executive officer, or without a full and fair hearing, an alien is deprived of his liberty, or is about to be deported, the power is conferred and the duty is imposed upon the courts of the United States to issue a writ of habeas corpus and relieve him. The Japanese Immigrant Case, 189 U. S. 86 , 100, 101, 23 Sup. Ct. 611 , 47 L. Ed. 721 ; Chin Yow v. United States, 208 U. S. 8 , 10, 12, 13, 28 Sup. Ct. 201 , 52 L. Ed. 369 ; Low Wah Suey v. Backus, 225 U. S. 460 , 468, 32 Sup. Ct. 734 , 56 L. Ed. 1165 ; Ex parte Petkos (D. C.) 212 Fed. 275 ; United States v. Chin Len, 187 Fed. 544 , 109 C. C. A. 310 ; United States v. Williams (D. C.) 185 Fed. 598 , 604; United States v. Williams (D. C.) 193 Fed. 228 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Immigrant Inspectors Y. D. Waters and B. Goodall testified that they were solicited by a prostitute in the room of John Jones. The charge in the warrant that these aliens are connected with the management of a house of prostitution is clearly proved by the testimony.” “The attorney for the alien admits that the testimony shows that he was the manager of a house of prostitution, but claims that two of the witnesses, Louise Mack and Policeman Roberts were angry at the alien for the reason that he demanded rent due him from them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indispensable requisites of a fair hearing ... are that ... the decision shall be governed by and based upon the evidence at the hearing, and that only; and that the decision shall not be without substantial evidence taken at the hearing to support it.”); see also Slaney v. Int’l Amateur Athletic Fed’n, 244 F.3d 580 , 592 (7th Cir.2001) (”
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.