Ex parte Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
237 F. 445 · 1916
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1958
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Wong Wing v. United States · Fong Yue Ting v. United States · United States v. Wong Kim Ark · 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision of any officers of this government which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatriation, is hereby declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of this government.” 15 Stat. 223 -224, R. S. § 1999, 8 U. S. C. § 800 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any American citizen shall be deemed to have expatriated himself when he has been naturalized in any foreign state in conformity with its laws, . . .”
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.