Ex parte Sing’s Empirical Analysis
82 F. 22 · 1897
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
May 1904
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act of 1892 is concededly a most drastic and summary law. Its machinery should not be set in motion by straining the evidence so as to convict those who, because of their ignorance of our language and institutions, are peculiarly helpless and unahle to protect themselves. It is one of the safeguards of our organic law that no one should be compelled to incriminate himself, and the courts have gone to the greatest lengths in enforcing this principle by a broad and liberal interpretation. It has never been construed in a narrow or illiberal spirit, or relaxed so as to endanger civil freedom, or oppress one, no matter how lowly, whose liberty is threatened. A Chinese person is entitled to demand that the judgment of deportation against him shall be based on legal evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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