Kwong Hai Chew v. Colding’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
423 federal appellate · 89 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 874 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei (1953), Landon v. Plasencia (1982)
423 federal appellate · 89 district · 9 state decisions
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. Kwong Hai Chew v. Colding (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 22 U.S.C. § 223 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1441 (§ 330 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 701 · 8 U.S.C. § 725
Relies on Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath · Carlson v. Landon · Bridges v. Wixon · United States Knauff v. Shaughnessy · Johnson v. Eisentrager
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 874 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“invested with the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people within our borders.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(n)o person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not even Congress may expel him without allowing him a fair opportunity to be heard.”
6 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.