United States of America v. Solomon Louis Ginsberg’s Empirical Analysis
243 U.S. 472 · 1917
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 131 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 560 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Schneiderman v. United States (1943), McNary v. Haitian Refugee Center, Inc. (1991)
160 federal appellate · 131 district · 19 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 Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Johannessen v. United States · United States v. Britton
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 560 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`An alien who seeks political rights as a member of this Nation can rightfully obtain them only upon the terms and conditions specified by Congress.'”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the ground that the certificate of citizenship was illegally procured.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Sec. 326. (a) An alien who is a native, citizen, subject, or denizen of any country, state, or sovereignty with which the United States is at war may be naturalized as a citizen of the United States if such alien’s declaration of intention was made not less than two years prior to the beginning of the state of war, or such alien was at the beginning of the state of war entitled to become a citizen of the United States without making a declaration of intention, or his petition for naturalization shall at the beginning of the state of war be pending and the petitioner is otherwise entitled to admission, notwithstanding such petitioner shall be an alien enemy at the time and in the manner prescribed by the laws passed upon that subject. “(b) An alien embraced within this section shall not have such alien’s petition for naturalization called for a hearing, or heard, except after ninety days’ notice given by the clerk of the court to the Commissioner to be represented at the hearing, and the Commissioner’s objection to such final hearing shall cause the petition to be continued from time to time for so long as the Commissioner may require.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schwab v. Coleman
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.