Paris v. Shaughnessy’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1201 (§ 221 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1426 (§ 315 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 201
Relies on Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei · James Sackley Company v. United States · United States Volpe v. Smith · Anna Lapina v. William Williams · St. Joe Paper Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(22) Aliens who are ineligible to citizenship, except aliens seeking to enter as nonimmigrants; or persons who have departed from or who have remained outside the United States to avoid or evade training or service in the armed forces in time of war or a period declared by the President to be a national emergency, except aliens who were at the time of such departure nonimmigrant aliens and who seek to reenter the United States as nonimmigrants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paris v. Shaughnessy
How this case has been treated — in progress
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