Anna Lapina v. William Williams’s Empirical Analysis
232 U.S. 78 · 1914
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 39 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1975 · most notably Caminetti v. United States (1917), Ng Fung Ho v. White (1922)
89 federal appellate · 39 district · 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. · Nishimura Ekiu v. United States · Chae Chan Ping v. United States
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authority of Congress over the general subject-matter is plenary; it may exclude aliens altogether, or prescribe the terms and conditions upon which they may come into or remain in this country. * * * The question, therefore, is not the power of Congress, but its intent and purpose as expressed in legislation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hansen v. Haff
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.