VELASQUEZ’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Hoodho v. Holder (2009), Lovell v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1995)
15 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. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1325 (§ 275 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Lopez-Mendoza · United States Bilokumsky v. Tod · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Elvira Magallanes-Damian v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Monica Gallegos-Ares v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Marisol Montero v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Candalaria Garcia-Quesada v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Jose Gallegos-Arrez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Engracia Saucedo-De Gallegos v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Lucia Solis De Garcia v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Trias-Hernandez 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]ocumentary evidence in deportation proceedings need not comport with the strict judicial rules of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perez v. Barr
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.