Yu Cong Eng v. Trinidad’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 500 · 1926
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 36 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 256 later decisions (47 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Hernandez v. New York (1991), Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad (1944)
77 federal appellate · 36 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same
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 256 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that amendment may not be substituted for construction, and that a court may not exercise legislative functions to save [a] law from conflict with constitutional limitation.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, inclusive terms in a criminal statute cannot be reduced by construction so as to limit its application only to that class of cases which it was within the power of the legislature to enact, and thus save the statute from invalidity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wershow
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.