Hughes v. Tropello’s Empirical Analysis
296 F. 306 · 1924
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1969
13 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Not only so, but the fact, the offense which is the.sole foundation of the right of deportation, must be established by some proceeding, hot only commenced, but concluded (that is, found to exist), within the period of five years after entry.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘That at any time within five years after entry, any alien (specifying the various classes unlawfully entering or found in. the United States) shall, upon a warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into custody and deported.’ ””
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.