Lee Hon Lung v. Dulles’s Empirical Analysis
261 F.2d 719 · 1958
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Cartier v. Secretary of State (1974), Mondaca-Vega v. Lynch (2015)
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 8 U.S.C. § 1503 (§ 360 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Schneiderman v. United States · Baumgartner v. United States · Nishikawa v. Dulles · Gonzales v. Landon · Shew v. Dulles
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e hold that where one has, over a long period of years, acted in reliance upon a decision of a board of special inquiry admitting him as a citizen of the United States, the fraud or error which will warrant disregard of such a decision must be established by evidence which is clear, unequivocal, and convincing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] certificate is 'illegally procured' ... if it is later determined that an essential finding of fact in the naturalization proceeding was erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Friend v. Reno“[T]he practical effect of a decision favorable to the Government in this case is”
1 later decision 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.