Schneider v. Rusk’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
235 federal appellate · 111 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 633 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Shapiro v. Thompson (1969), Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)
235 federal appellate · 111 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Bolling v. Sharpe · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Trop v. Dulles · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Hirabayashi 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 633 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so unjustifiable as to be violative of due process.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“... the rights of citizenship of the native born and of the naturalized person are of the same dignity and are coextensive. The only difference drawn by the Constitution is that only the “natural born” citizen is eligible to be President. Art. II, § 1. While the rights of citizenship of the native born derive from § 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment and the rights of the naturalized citizen derive from satisfying, free of fraud, the requirements set by Congress, the latter, apart from the exception noted, “becomes a member of the society, possessing all the rights of a native citizen and standing, in the view of the Constitution, on footing of a native.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) A person who has become a national by naturalization shall lose his nationality by (1) having a continuous residence for three years in the territory of a foreign state of which he was formerly a national or in which the place of his birth is situated, except as provided in section 353 of this title, whether such residence commenced before or after the effective date of this Act * * *. Section 352, Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 66 Stat. 163 , 269, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101 , 1484.”
1 later decision 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.