United States Volpe v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 422 · 1933
Citation profile
175 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 304 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Almeida-Sanchez v. United States (1973), Jordan v. De George (1951)
175 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 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
reviewedUnited States ex rel. Volpe v. Smith (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Low Wah Suey v. Backus · Lewis v. Frick · Helena Bugajewitz v. Louis Adams D C · United States ex rel. Turner v. Williams
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 304 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any coming of an alien from a foreign country into the United States whether such coming be the first or any subsequent one.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It may be true that, if Volpe had remained within the United States, he could not have been expelled because of his conviction of crime in 1925, more than five years after his original entry; but it does not follow that, after he voluntarily departed he had the right of re-entry. In sufficiently plain language Congress has declared to the contrary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . any alien who is hereafter sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year or more because of conviction in this country of a crime involving moral turpitude, committed within five years after the entry of the alien to the United States . . . shall, upon the warrant of the Attorney General, be taken into custody and deported. . . .”
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.