Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath’s Empirical Analysis
339 U.S. 33 · 1950
Citation profile
705 federal appellate · 119 district · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,569 later decisions (126 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Goldberg v. Kelly (1970), Butz v. Economou (1978)
705 federal appellate · 119 district · 141 state decisions — followed in 25 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWong Yang Sung v. Clark (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Helvering v. Hallock · Bridges v. Wixon · Japanese Immigrant Case · Kwock Jan Fat v. White
Cited together with Marcello v. Bonds · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Harisiades v. Shaughnessy · Mathews v. Eldridge · Kwong Hai Chew v. Colding
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 1,569 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would be a disservice to our form of government and to the administrative process itself if the courts should fail, so far as the terms of the Act warrant, to give effect to its remedial purposes where the evils it was aimed at appear.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a case of adjudication required by statute to be determined upon the record after opportunity for agency hearing”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“hearings of less than statutory authority, not those of more than statutory authority.”
11 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.