United States Vajtauer v. Commissioner of Immigration at Port of New York’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 103 · 1927
Citation profile
325 federal appellate · 66 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 794 later decisions (129 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr (2001), Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill (1985)
325 federal appellate · 66 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Brown v. Walker · United States Bilokumsky v. Tod · Chin Yow 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 794 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there was some evidence from which the conclusion of the administrative tribunal could be deduced....”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * The privilege may. not be relied on and must be deemed waived ’ if not in some manner fairly brought to the attention of the tribunal which must pass upon it. See In re Knickerbocker Steamboat Company, D.C., 139 F. 713 [716]; United States v. Skinner, D.C., 218 F. 870 , 876; United States v. Elton, D.C., 222 F. 428 , 435.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“aliens who believe in, advise, advocate, or teach, or who are members of or affiliated with any organization, association, society, or group, that believes in, advises, advocates, or teaches . . . the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States. . . .”
2 later decisions 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.