Tillinghast v. Edmead’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.2d 81 · 1929
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2014 · most notably Jordan v. De George (1951), Medina v. United States (2001)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Bartos v. United States · Coykendall v. Skrmetta · In re Disbarment of Henry · Howes v. Tozer · Redway v. Gray
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“crimes and misdemeanors, that are forbidden by the superior laws, and therefore styled mala in se (crimes in themselves), such as murder, theft, and perjury; which contract no additional turpitude from being declared unlawful by the inferior legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jordan v. De George““* * * any alien who was convicted, or who admits the commission, prior to entry, of a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude * * * shall, upon the warrant of the [Attorney General], be taken into custody and deported * * *.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ablett v. Brownell
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.