Frick v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
263 U.S. 326 · 1923
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Hines v. Davidowitz (1941), Graham v. Richardson (1971)
3 federal appellate · 9 district · 29 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
reviewedFrick v. Webb
Relationships
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · William Truax v. Mike Raich · Truax v. Corrigan · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The state has power, and the act evidences its purpose, to deny to ineligible aliens permission to own, lease, use or have the benefit of lands within its borders for agricultural purposes. Webb v. O’Brien, supra, ‘As the state has the power ... to prohibit, it may adopt such measures as are reasonably appropriate or needful to render exercise of that power effective’ (citing cases). It may forbid indirect as well as direct ownership and control of agricultural land by ineligible aliens.””
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.