naturalization proceedings
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 278 U.S. 17 - Maney v. United States · 1928Most cited · 166 citing opinions
they are not for the usual purpose of vindicating an existing right but for the purpose of getting granted to an alien rights that do not yet exist. Hence not only the conditions attached to the grant, but those attached to the power of the instrument used by the United States to make the grant must be complied with strictly, as in other instances of Government gifts.
How often courts cite the case defining “naturalization proceedings”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “naturalization proceedings” — 166 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.