Knauer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
328 U.S. 654 · 1946
Citation profile
197 federal appellate · 42 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 453 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Klapprott v. United States (1949), Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1951)
197 federal appellate · 42 district · 5 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
reviewedUnited States v. Knauer (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. · United States v. Throckmorton · Schneiderman v. United States · Bridges v. Wixon · Ng Fung Ho v. White
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 453 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]enaturalization, like deportation, may result in the loss of all that makes life worth living.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * we are dealing in cases of this kind with questions of intent. * * * Intent is a subjective state, illusory and difficult to establish in absence of voluntary confession. What may appear objectively to be false may still fall short of establishing an intentional misrepresentation which is necessary in order to prove that the oath was perjurious. * * * [U]iterances made in years subsequent to the oath are not readily to be charged against the state of mind existing when the oath is administered. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Citizenship obtained through naturalization is not a second-class citizenship. It has been said that citizenship carries with it all of the rights and prerogatives of citizenship obtained by birth in this country ‘save that of eligibility to the Presidency’.””
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.