Delmore v. Brownell’s Empirical Analysis
236 F.2d 598 · 1956
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Lee Hon Lung v. Dulles (1958), United States v. Ghaloub (1966)
18 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 8 U.S.C. § 1503 (§ 360 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Lichter v. United States · Lehmann v. Acheson · Wong Wing Foo v. McGrath · Mah Toi v. Brownell
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Once the United States has determined that an individual is a citizen, it should be required to disproye oWQ deter_ mination by ^equivocal, and convincing evidence’ * * 5”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lee Hon Lung v. Dulles · PERALTA“much more than a mere preponderance of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lim v. Mitchell
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.