United States of America v. Ruben Lopez-Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis
183 F.3d 933 · 1999
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Velasquez-Gabriel v. Crocetti (2001), United States v. Gomez-Mendez (2007)
17 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
Relies on United States v. Olson · United States v. Neill · United States v. Pantin · United States v. Pena-Renovato
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“eliminate[d] the previous legal distinction between deportation, removal and exclusion”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.