Nagle v. Loi Hoa’s Empirical Analysis
275 U.S. 475 · 1928
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025
3 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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
reviewedLoi Hoa v. Nagle (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on National Lead Co. v. United States · Carlisle v. United States · The Pizarro · Hammerstein v. Lyne
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sole question presented is whether the word ‘subject’ as used in § 6 is to be taken as including only those persons who by birth or naturalization owe permanent allegiance to the government issuing the certificate, or as embracing also those who, being domiciled within the territorial limits of that government, owe it for that reason obedience and temporary allegiance. “The word may be used in either sense. * * * ””
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.