Perkins v. Elg’s Empirical Analysis
307 U.S. 325 · 1939
Citation profile
284 federal appellate · 116 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 636 later decisions (78 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. (1949), Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath (1951)
284 federal appellate · 116 district · 13 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · United States v. Wong Kim Ark · Krueger v. United States · Terlinden v. Ames
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 636 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * any American citizen shall be deemed to have expatriated himself * * * when he has taken an oath of allegiance to any foreign state.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alata v. Dulles · Bauer v. Clark“solely on the ground that she had lost her native born American citizenship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is entitled to all the rights and privileges of [U.S.] citizenship.”
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.