G’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2020
8 federal appellate ·
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. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Kercheval v. United States · Fong Haw Tan v. Phelan · Maloy v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of West Palm Beach · Stephens v. Toomey · Lehmann v. United States Ex Rel. Carson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“claim truthfully that he has never been convicted of a felony”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that Congressional rejection of the legislative pardon was based on its automatic application to one who had served his sentence irrespective of the merits of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Barr“clear national policy militating against the abridgement of the term 'convicted' in the cases . . . of narcotics convictions”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. IBARRA-OBANDO
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.