Moraitis v. Delany’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1990
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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.
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 201
Relies on Guaranty Trust Co of New York v. United States · Wititaker Wright v. William Henkel · Burnet v. Chicago Portrait Co. · Stallings v. Splain · Philippides v. Day
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What is a reasonable time varies with ■circumstances; during the World War it was a matter of even judicial cognizance that opportunities for deportation were -rare and long delayed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““What constitutes a reasonable time for ■detention of petitioner in custody for deportation depends upon the facts and circumstances of particular cases.””
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.