FRENTESCU’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987), Kaplun v. Attorney General of the United States (2010)
52 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such factors as the nature of the conviction, the circumstances and underlying facts of the conviction, the type of sentence imposed, and, most importantly, whether the type and circumstances of the crime indicate that the alien will be a danger to the community.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Nevertheless, we recognize that there may be instances where crimes (or a crime) against property will be considered as such crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dor v. Garland“considering the totality of the circumstances . . . concerning [Frentescu's] crime,”
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.