Tutun v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that petitions for naturalization were “instituted and ... conducted ... according to the regular course of judicial procedure”
• “The opportunity to become a citizen of the United States is said to be merely a privilege, and not a right.”
• “there is a statutory right in the alien to submit his petition, ... and, if the requisite facts are established, to receive the certificate.”
• appealing to history to support jurisdiction in naturalization proceedings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).