Weedin v. Bow’s Empirical Analysis
274 U.S. 657 · 1927
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Morrison v. People of State of California (1934), Miller v. Albright (1998)
37 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 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
reviewedWeedin v. Chin Bow (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Wong Kim Ark · United States v. Freeman · Cope v. Cope · State v. Adams
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All children heretofore born or hereafter bom out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D'Alessio v. Lehman“attached more importance to actual residence in the United States as indicating a basis for citizenship than it did to descent.... [T]he heritable blood of citizenship was thus associated unmistakeably with residence within the country which was thus recognized as essential to full citizenship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“citizenship to a generation whose birth, minority and majority, whose education, and whose family life, have all been out of the United States and naturally within the ... environment of an alien country”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Friend v. Reno
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.