Tiaco v. Forbes’s Empirical Analysis
228 U.S. 549 · 1913
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 7 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2009 · most notably Hirabayashi v. United States (1943), Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1951)
42 federal appellate · 7 district · 24 state decisions
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 United States v. Lee · Edye v. Robertson · Wong Wing v. United States · Kilbourn v. Thompson · Downes v. Bidwell
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is admitted that sovereign states have inherent power to deport aliens, and seemingly that Congress is not deprived of this power by the Constitution of the United States. * * * Furthermore, the very ground of the power in the necessities of public welfare shows that it may have to be exercised in a summary way through executive officers. * * * So that the question is narrowed further to the inquiry whether the Philippine government cannot do what unquestionably Congress might. “As Congress is not prevented by the Constitution, the Philippine government cannot be prevented by the Philippine Bill of Rights alone.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Bridges“[I]t generally is recognized that . where the act originally purports to be done in the name and by the authority of the state, a defect in that authority may be cured by the subsequent adoption of the act. The person who has assumed to represent the will and person of the superior power is given the benefit of the representation if it turns out that his assumption was correct, [cases cited].”
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.