Ex Parte Colonna No - Original Submitted on Motion for Leave to File Dec 8 1941’s Empirical Analysis
314 U.S. 510 · 1942
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 11 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1982 · most notably Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino (1964), Johnson v. Eisentrager (1950)
26 federal appellate · 11 district · 22 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 Hanger v. Abbott · Caperton v. Bowyer · W. Witmark Sons v. . Hall-Berwin Corporation · Masterson Assignee v. Howard
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This provision [Section 7(b)] was inserted in the act in the light of the principle recognized by Congress and by this Court that war suspends the right of enemy plaintiffs to prosecute actions in our courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... nothing in this act shall be deemed to authorize the prosecution of any suit or action at law or in equity in any court within the United States by an enemy or ally of enemy prior to the end of the war. ...”
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.