Sternaman v. Peck’s Empirical Analysis
80 F. 883 · 1897
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1988
6 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Wong Wing v. United States · Nishimura Ekiu v. United States · Lem Moon Sing v. United States · Oteiza v. Jacobus · Warren v. Stoddart
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fads and circumstances proved authorized conflicting presumptions and probabilities as to her guilt or innocence, and it was the province of the commissioner to determine their Import., and whether they were such as to justify him in exercising his power to commit her to custody pending the action of the department of state. Xo useful purpose would be subserved by an analysis or discussion of the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Glucksman
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.