Afroyim v. Rusk’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
148 federal appellate · 58 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 371 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Fedorenko v. United States (1981), Sugarman v. Dougall (1973)
148 federal appellate · 58 district · 29 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
reviewedAfroyim v. Rusk (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Trop v. Dulles · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · 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 371 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a constitutional right to remain a citizen . . . unless he voluntarily relinquishes that citizenship.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rather the Amendment can most reasonably be read as defining a citizenship which a citizen keeps unless he voluntarily relinquishes it.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a)ll persons born or naturalized in the United States . . . are citizens,”
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.