Singh v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.3d 1512 · 1997
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Alaka v. Attorney General of the United States (2006), Nakamoto v. Ashcroft (2004)
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 8 U.S.C. § 1105A (§ 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias · Woodby v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Landon v. Plasencia · Saxbe v. Bustos
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a continuous, uninterrupted intention to return to the United States during the entirety of his visit.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A trip is a ‘temporary visit abroad’ if (a) it is for a relatively short period,, fixed by some early event; or (b) the trip will terminate upon the occurrence of an event that has a reasonable possibility of occurring within a relatively short period of time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hana v. Gonzales · Moin v. Ashcroft“[t]he issue is not whether the petitioner had the intent to return ultimately, but the intent to return to the United States within a relatively short period.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.