Kaplan v. Tod

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that an unadmitted alien held on Ellis Island, and later elsewhere within the United States, was “to be regarded as stopped at the boundary line” for naturalization purposes
• concluding that an unadmitted alien held on Ellis Island, 4 and later elsewhere within the United States, was \to be regarded 5 as stopped at the boundary line\ for naturalization purposes
• concluding that an unadmitted alien held on Ellis Island, and later elsewhere within the United States, was \to be regarded as stopped at the boundary line\ for naturalization purposes
• noting that an alien “stopped at the boundary line” of the United States “had gained no foothold” in the country
• noting that an alien “stopped at the boundary line” of the United States “had gained no foothold” in the country
• holding that, despite nine years of 21 physical presence in the United States, an alien “was still in theory of law at the boundary line and had gained no foothold in the United States”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).