United States v. Minker’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
124 federal appellate · 9 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Abel v. United States (1960), De Sylva v. Ballentine (1956)
124 federal appellate · 9 district · 13 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 v. Minker (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1425 · 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 103 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1225 (§ 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1357 (§ 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1443 (§ 332 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1446 (§ 335 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Boyd v. United States · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · McNabb v. United States · In re Oliver · Bell 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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“or concerning any matter which is material and relevant to the enforcement of the Act”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The 1952 Act in § 235(a) retained the substance of this language in § 16. But the word ‘alien’ was changed to ‘person,’ and additional language extended the subpoena power to ‘any matter which is material and relevant to the enforcement of this Act and the administration of the Service.’ If the additional clause, following the portion ‘relating to the privilege of any person to enter, reenter, reside in, or pass through the United States’, had merely read ‘and any other matter which is material and relevant,’ the doctrine of ejusdem generis would appropriately be invoked to limit the subpoena power to an investigation pertaining to questions of admission and deportation. The comprehensive addition of the clause ‘or concerning any matter which is material and relevant to the enforcement of this Act and the administration of the Service’, precludes such narrowing reading. ‘Act’ encompasses the full range of subjects covered by the statute. * * * Throughout this statute the word ‘Act’ is given its full significance. The word embraces the entire statute. * * * ” 4”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The subpoena power ‘is a power capable of oppressive use, especially when it may be indiscriminately delegated and the subpoena is not returnable before a judicial officer. * * * True, there can be no penalty incurred for contempt before there is a judicial order of enforcement. But the subpoena is in form an official command, and even though improvidently issued it has some coercive tendency, either because of ignorance of their rights on the part of those whom it purports to command or their natural respect for what appears to be an official command, or because of their reluctance to test the subpoena’s validity by litigation.’ Cudahy Packing Co., Ltd. v. Holland, 315 U.S. 357, 363-364 [ 62 S.Ct. 651, 654, 655 , 86 L.Ed. 895 ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mott v. MacMahon
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.