GONZALEZ’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2014
6 federal appellate ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 912
Relies on Babich v. United States · Mercer v. Lence · Giambanco v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Cabuco-Flores v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Mercer v. Lence
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he [Immigration and Naturalization] Act nowhere states that the criminal activity and the conviction which resulted therefrom cannot be considered in connection with an application for discretionary relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all discretionary applications under the Act”
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.