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statutory right to naturalization

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Definitions from Case Law

From 270 U.S. 568 - Tutun v. United States · 1926Most cited · 622 citing opinions

The opportunity having been conferred by the Naturalization Act, there is a statutory right in the alien to submit his petition and evidence to a court, to have that tribunal pass upon them, and, if the requisite facts are established, to receive the certificate.

How often courts cite the case defining “statutory right to naturalization”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “statutory right to naturalization” — 622 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.