Nishikawa v. Dulles’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
128 federal appellate · 24 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 278 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez (1963), Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston (1983)
128 federal appellate · 24 district · 26 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
reviewedMitsugi Nishikawa v. John Foster Dulles, as Secretary of State (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1481 (§ 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1482
Relies on Trop v. Dulles · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Leland v. Oregon · Tot v. United States · Schneiderman 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 278 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as far as is reasonably possible in favor of the citizen.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Regardless of what conduct is alleged to result in expatriation, whenever the issue of voluntariness is put in issue, the Government must in each case prove voluntary conduct by clear, convincing and unequivocal evidence.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'may be highly persuasive evidence ... of a purpose to abandon citizenship,'”
3 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.