PIERRE’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably United States of v. Alejandro Pacheco-Medina (2000), Farquharson v. U.S. Attorney General (2001)
16 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
Relies on Boesche v. Udall · Leng May Ma v. Barber · Wysong v. People of the State of California · United States ex rel. Marcial v. Fay · Siu Fung Luk v. Rosenberg
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any coming of an alien into the United States, from a foreign port or place or from an outlying possession. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. BARRETO“no entry is made when the alien is taken into custody upon his arrival at an American port . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. YAM“which is now defined in section 101(a)(13) of the Act as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.