19 I. & N. Dec. 609 - BARCENAS’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Gonzalez-Rivera v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1994), Oliva-Ramos v. Attorney General of the United States (2012)
14 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. § 1101 (§ 101 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1254 (§ 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Bulova Watch Co. v. United States · Trias-Hernandez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Marlowe v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Tashnizi v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · United States v. Abdulghani
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before the Service will be called on to assume the burden of justifying the manner in which it obtained the evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanchez v. Sessions
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.