United States Johnson v. Shaughnessy’s Empirical Analysis
336 U.S. 806 · 1949
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Federal Communications Commission v. WJR, Goodwill Station, Inc. (1949), In re Naturalization of Longstaff (1983)
34 federal appellate ·
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 ex rel. Johnson v. Watkins (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Hormel v. Helvering · United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · Unemployment Compensation Commission v. Aragon · Stearns Co of Boston Mass 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ... regulations plainly prohibit the issuance of exclusion orders resting on nothing but a single episode reported by a non-Public-Health doctor. Congress has provided that before aliens suspected of mental defects are excluded, findings and conclusions shall be made by Public Health doctors based on their own examinations made in compliance with procedural safeguards defined or authorized by Congress. Medical certificates barring aliens are even then to be issued “only if the presence of such ... defect is clearly established.” (Citation omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a medical officer or civil surgeon or board of medical officers has certified ... that an alien is afflicted ... with any mental disease, defect, or disability which would bring such alien within any of the classes excluded from admission to the United States under paragraphs (1) to (4) or (5) of section 1182(a) of this title, the decision of the special inquiry officer shall be based solely upon such certification. No alien shall have a right to appeal from such an excluding decision of a special inquiry officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“arriving aliens * * * shall be made by medical officers of the United States Public Health Service, who shall conduct all medical examinations and shall certify, for the information of the immigration officers and the special inquiry officers, any physical and mental defect or disease observed * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.