Techt v. . Hughes’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 10 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2003 · most notably Johnson v. Eisentrager (1950), Clark v. Allen (1947)
23 federal appellate · 10 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Edye v. Robertson · Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Taggart · Geofroy v. Riggs · Hauenstein v. Lynham
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The words `alien friend' and `alien enemy' had come down through the centuries, freighted with a significance which they had gained under the old order. The plaintiff has the burden of showing that, as used in this statute, they were filled with a new content.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caparell v. Goodbody“Every individual of the one nation must acknowledge every individual of the other nation as his own enemy — because the enemy of his country.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The wisdom or fairness of the statute, I make no attempt to vindicate. Our duty is done when we enforce the law as it is written.”
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.