BELTRAN’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 373 · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Nye & Nissen v. United States · Scales v. United States · National Petroleum Refiners Ass'n v. Federal Trade Commission · Bevan v. Trustees of Penn Central Transportation Co. · Morei v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress intended to give inclusive meaning in the immigration laws to the phrase `relating to.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kamagate v. Ashcroft“would constitute a ground of deportability under [the Controlled Substance Provision],”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shaw v. Sessions“[t]he phrase `relating to' ... has long been construed to have broad coverage”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kamagate v. Ashcroft
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.