Yee Won v. White’s Empirical Analysis
258 F. 792 · 1919
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1935
3 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Nishimura Ekiu v. United States · United States v. Ju Toy · Chin Yow v. United States · Low Wah Suey v. Backus · Lem Moon Sing 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The father of Yee Won died in San Francisco in 1908. In the latter part of 1910 Yee Won applied to the. immigration officers at the port of San Francisco for an identification of his status. He was about to depart for China, and it was his purpose to’ secure such an identification as would secure his admission upon his return. He made no claim that he was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yee Won v. White
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.