Torao Takahashi v. Fish and Game Commission’s Empirical Analysis
334 U.S. 410 · 1948
Citation profile
227 federal appellate · 112 district · 242 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 932 later decisions (88 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Boddie v. Connecticut (1971), Plyler v. Doe (1982)
227 federal appellate · 112 district · 242 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 Hines v. Davidowitz · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States · William Truax v. Mike Raich · Korematsu v. United States
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 932 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can neither add to nor take from the conditions lawfully imposed by Congress upon admission, naturalization and residence of aliens in the United States or the several states.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Fourteenth Amendment and the laws adopted under its authority thus embody a general policy that all persons lawfully in this country shall abide `in any state' on an equality of legal privileges with all citizens under non-discriminatory laws.”
8 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.