SILVA’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr (2001), Lozada v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1988)
62 federal appellate · 8 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 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))
Relies on Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Stanton v. Stanton · Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Taggart · Francis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Arias-Uribe v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ne cannot help but be puzzled by that portion of the Francis decision which lays this deficiency in the statute at the feet of the Board of Immigration Appeals.... If this discrimination is irrational and unconstitutional, it is so, not because of a Board interpretation, but because of the language of the statute itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“has been convicted of a violation of, or a conspiracy to violate, any law or regulation relating to the illicit possession of or traffic in narcotic drugs or marijuana.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Section 212(c) has now been judicially rewritten.... This may be desirable, but it is not what Congress wrote, nor what it intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.