Shaughnessy, District Director of Immigration and Naturalization, v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei

Decided March 16, 1953. Tom C. Clark delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 139 · 345 U.S. 206 (1953) · Cited 871 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 5–4.

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• United States Ex Rel. Knauff v. Shaughnessy · 338 U.S. 537 (1950)
• Kwong Hai Chew v. Colding · 344 U.S. 590 (1953)
• Harisiades v. Shaughnessy · 342 U.S. 580 (1952)
• Carlson v. Landon · 342 U.S. 524 (1952)
• Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath · 339 U.S. 33 (1950)
• Nishimura Ekiu v. United States · 142 U.S. 651 (1892)
• United States v. Ju Toy · 198 U.S. 253 (1905)
• Chin Yow v. United States · 208 U.S. 8 (1908)
• Ludecke v. Watkins · 335 U.S. 160 (1948)
• Kaplan v. Tod · 267 U.S. 228 (1925)
• Korematsu v. United States · 323 U.S. 214 (1945)
• Fong Yue Ting v. United States · 149 U.S. 698 (1893)
• The Japanese Immigrant Case · 189 U.S. 86 (1903)
• The Chinese Exclusion Case · 130 U.S. 581 (1889)
• Lem Moon Sing v. United States · 158 U.S. 538 (1895)
• Delgadillo v. Carmichael · 332 U.S. 388 (1947)

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• Zadvydas v. Davis · 533 U.S. 678 (2001)
• Jay v. Boyd · 351 U.S. 345 (1956)
• Trop v. Dulles · 356 U.S. 86 (1958)
• Kerry v. Din · 576 U.S. 86 (2015)
• Jones v. Cunningham · 371 U.S. 236 (1963)
• Leng May Ma v. Barber · 357 U.S. 185 (1958)
• Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc. · 509 U.S. 155 (1993)
• Plyler v. Doe · 457 U.S. 202 (1982)
• Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · 372 U.S. 144 (1963)
• Greene v. McElroy · 360 U.S. 474 (1959)
• Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox · 379 U.S. 650 (1965)
• Kleindienst v. Mandel · 408 U.S. 753 (1972)
• Cox v. Louisiana · 379 U.S. 559 (1965)
• Landon v. Plasencia · 459 U.S. 21 (1982)
• Fiallo Ex Rel. Rodriguez v. Bell · 430 U.S. 787 (1977)
• Stein v. New York · 346 U.S. 156 (1953)
• Rasul v. Bush · 542 U.S. 466 (2004)
• Rosenberg v. Fleuti · 374 U.S. 449 (1963)
• Miller v. Albright · 523 U.S. 420 (1998)

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