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← 20 I&NDEC 579 - SERNA

SERNA’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
1
states following
September 2023
most recently cited

18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably 23 Cal. 4th 183 - People v. Superior Court (Zamudio) (2000), Marmolejo-Campos v. Holder (2009)

18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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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 18 U.S.C. § 1546 · 8 U.S.C. § 1 · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 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 Jordan v. De George · Fong Haw Tan v. Phelan · Wadman v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · United States ex rel. Zaffarano v. Corsi · United States ex rel. Robinson v. Day

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “in the case of an altered document, the Government has not been harmed until a person actually uses it or intends to use it for fraudulent or deceitful purposes.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[c]ircumstances may exist under which the respondent might not have had the intent to use the altered immigration document in his possession unlawfully,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “); United States ex rel. Meyer v. Day, 54 F.2d 336, 337 (2d Cir. 1931) (stating that”
    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.