Alejandrino v. Quezon’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 528 · 1926
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Powell v. McCormack (1969), United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. (1950)
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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
Relies on Brownlow v. Schwartz · Jaybird Mining Co. v. Weir · Board of Public Utility Commissioners v. Compañia General de Tabacos de Filipinas
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not think that we can consider this question, for the reason that the period of suspension fixed in the resolution has expired, and, so far as we are advised, Alejandrino is now exercising his functions as a member of the Senate. It is therefore in this Court a moot question whether lawfully he could be suspended in the way in which he was.”
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.