Montgomery v. Ffrench’s Empirical Analysis
299 F.2d 730 · 1962
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2018
13 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei · Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath · United States Knauff v. Shaughnessy · John Den James Murray and John Kayser v. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company John Den James B Murray et al. · Kwong Hai Chew v. Colding
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]dmission of an alien to this country is not a right but a privilege which is granted only upon such terms as the United States prescribes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Act [providing for the admission into the United States of alien orphans] established only a privilege, a privilege which could be exercised only with the approval of the Attorney General or his designate. * * * Under these circumstances the courts possess no right or power to question the propriety or reasonableness of the Attorney General's denial of the petition by a declaratory judgment or otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Braude v. Wirtz“We do not suggest, of course, that an alien who has never presented himself at the borders of this country may avail himself of the declaratory judgment action by bringing the action from abroad.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Braude v. Wirtz
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.