United States ex rel. Eichenlaub v. Shaughnessy’s Empirical Analysis

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240 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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 300 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * [T]he Act does not require that the offenders reached by it must have had the status of aliens at the time they were convicted. As the Act does not state that necessity, it is applicable to all such offenders, including those denatural-ized before or after their convictions as well as those who never have been naturalized.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marks v. Esperdy · Costello v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

2. “There is no question as to the power of Congress to enact a statute to deport aliens because of past misconduct. Mahler v. Eby, 264 U.S. 32 , [44 S.Ct. 283, 68 L.Ed. 549]; Ng Fung Ho v. White, 259 U.S. 276 , 280, [42 S.Ct. 492, 493, 66 L. Ed. 938]; Bugajewitz v. Adams, 228 U.S. 585 , [33 S.Ct. 607, 57 L.Ed. 978]; Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 149 U.S. 698 , 730, [13 S.Ct. 1016, 1028, 37 L.Ed. 905].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States ex rel. Circella v. Sahli

3. “of violations of the Espionage Act of 1917, as amended, were made deportable, provided the Attorney General after a hearing found them to be undesirable residents of the United States. Thus the time of conviction is stated to be, as paraphrased by the Supreme Court, at page 530 of 338 U.S., at page 333 of 70 S.Ct.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Costello v. Immigration & Naturalization Service