Rosenberg v. Fleuti’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
519 federal appellate · 33 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 920 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Dandridge v. Williams (1970), Hagans v. Lavine (1974)
519 federal appellate · 33 district · 14 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
reviewedFleuti v. Rosenberg (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei · Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin · Bridges v. Wixon · Ng Fung Ho v. White
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 920 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intent to depart in a manner which can be regarded as meaningfully interruptive of the alien's permanent residence.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an alien having a lawful permanent residence in the United States shall not be regarded as making an entry into the United States for the purposes of the immigration laws if the alien proves to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that his departure to a foreign port or place or to an outlying possession was not intended or reasonably to be expected by him or his presence in a foreign port or place or in an outlying possession was not voluntary.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“as a departure disruptive of his resident alien status and therefore may not subject him to the consequences of an”
29 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.