Chaunt v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
189 federal appellate · 21 district · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 484 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Santosky v. Kramer (1982), Addington v. Texas (1979)
189 federal appellate · 21 district · 95 state decisions — followed in 21 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
reviewedChaunt v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Klapprott v. United States · Jordan v. De George · Schneiderman v. United States · Sweet v. United States · Baumgartner 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 484 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either (1) that facts were suppressed which, if known, would have warranted denial of citizenship or (2) that their disclosure might have been useful in an investigation possibly leading to the discovery of other facts warranting denial of citizenship.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Acquisition of American citizenship is a solemn affair. Full and truthful response to all relevant questions required by the naturalization procedure is, of course, to be exacted, and temporizing with the truth must be vigorously discouraged. Failure to give frank, honest, and unequivocal answers to the court when one seeks naturalization is a serious matter. Complete replies are essential so that the qualifications of the applicant or his lack of them may ■ be ascertained. * * * ” Chaunt v. United States, 364 U.S. 350 , 352, 81 S.Ct. 147 , 149, 5 L.Ed.2d 120 (1960).”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While disclosure of them was properly exacted, the arrests in these cases were not reflections on the character of the man seeking citizenship. The statute in force at the time of his naturalization required ■ that ‘he has behaved as a person of : good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States’ during the previous five years. These arrests were made some years prior to the critical five-year period. They did not, moreover, involve moral turpitude within the meaning of the law. Cf. Jordan v. De George, 341 U.S. 223 , 71 S.Ct. 703 , 95 L.Ed. 886 . No fraudulent conduct was charged. They involved distributing handbills, making a speech, and a breach of the peace. In one instance he was discharged, in one instance the prosecution was ■‘nolled,’ and in the other (for making a speech in a park in violation of city regulations) he apparently received a suspended sentence. The totality of the circumstances surrounding the offenses charged makes them of extremely slight consequence. * * *” 364 U.S. 350 , 353-354, 81 S.Ct. 147 , 149 (1960).”
5 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.