Dayton v. Dulles’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1981 · most notably Haig v. Agee (1981), Soucie v. David (1971)
25 federal appellate ·
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
reviewedDayton v. Dulles (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Kent v. Dulles · Peters v. Hobby · Palermo v. Luckenbach Steamship Co. · United States v. Toulmin · Bantel v. Brownell
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`association with persons suspected of being part of the Rosenberg espionage ring and his alleged presence at an apartment in New York which was allegedly used for microfilming material obtained for the use of a foreign government.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haig v. Agee““The passport application of Weldon Bruce Dayton is therefore denied under Section 51.135(c) of the Passport Regulations (22 CFR 51.135(c)), and because the issuance of a passport would be contrary to the national interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dayton v. Dulles“`connection with the Science for Victory Committee and his association at that time with various communists,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haig v. Agee
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.