Harisiades v. Shaughnessy’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
965 federal appellate · 227 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,967 later decisions (111 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Plyler v. Doe (1982), Rankin v. McPherson (1987)
965 federal appellate · 227 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedUnited States ex rel. Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 50 U.S.C. § 21 · 5 U.S.C. § 1001 · 5 U.S.C. § 1011
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Dennis v. United States · Cannon v. United States · Hirabayashi v. United States · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife.
Cited together with Galvan v. Press · Mathews v. Diaz · Fiallo Ex Rel. Rodriguez v. Bell · Carlson v. Landon · Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei
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 1,967 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny policy toward aliens is vitally and intricately interwoven with contemporaneous policies in regard to the conduct of foreign relations, the war power, and the maintenance of a republican form of government. Such matters are so exclusively entrusted to the political branches of government as to be largely immune from judicial inquiry or interference.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Deportation, however severe its consequences, has been consistently classified as a civil rather than a criminal procedure.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'solely for the responsibility of the Congress and wholly outside the power of this Court to control.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.