Lewis v. Frick’s Empirical Analysis
233 U.S. 291 · 1914
Citation profile
192 federal appellate · 66 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 378 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2007 · most notably Helvering v. Mitchell (1938), United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms (1984)
192 federal appellate · 66 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedFrick v. Lewis (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Low Wah Suey v. Backus · Zakonaite v. Wolf · Anna Lapina v. William Williams · Frick v. Lewis
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 378 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“merely ... an adjudication that the proof was not sufficient to overcome all reasonable doubt of the guilt of the accused.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But since his offense was not discovered in time to permit of his physical exclusion, so that he becomes subject to the provisions for deportation, his destination ought not to he controlled by the factitious circumstance that he went into Canada to procure the prostituto. And, upon the whole, it seems to us that the act reasonably admits of his being returned to the land of his nativity, that being in fact the ‘country whence he came’ when he first entered the United States.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the deportation of aliens arrested within the United States after entry and found to be illegally therein, provided for in this act, shall be to the trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific ports from which said aliens embarked for the United States; or, if such embarkation was for foreign contiguous territory, to the foreign part at which said aliens embarked for such territory.” Comp. St. 1913, § 4284.”
3 later decisions 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.