Mercer v. Lence’s Empirical Analysis
96 F.2d 122 · 1938
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Jordan v. De George (1951), Tseung Chu v. Cornell (1957)
15 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States ex rel. Robinson v. Day · Tillinghast v. Edmead · Ng Sui Wing v. United States · Bartos v. United States · United States ex rel. Medich v. Burmaster
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * who have been convicted of * * * a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. F
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.