16 I. & N. Dec. 569 - McNAUGHTON’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2023
3 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 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 Superintendent of Insurance of State of New York v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company · Jordan v. De George · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Capital Gains Research Bureau, Inc. · Hirsch 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.
“It is not our place to retry [the respondent's guilt or innocence]. The respondent must address any attack on the merits of the conviction to the courts with criminal jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whenever a crime has involved intent to defraud, it has been found to involve moral turpitude”
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.