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← 21 F.3d 314 - Barrera-Echavarria v. Rison

Barrera-Echavarria v. Rison’s Empirical Analysis

21 F.3d 314 · 1994

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
June 2002
most recently cited

5 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 103 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1226 (§ 236 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 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))

Relies on United States v. Salerno · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Addington v. Texas · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez

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

  1. “In our society no person may be imprisoned for many years without prospect of termination. The rights of the human person must be vindicated as part of the common good of our society.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “release Barrera into a halfway house or some other form of supervised release program ... unless the Attorney General can show that his deportation is imminent.”
    1 later decision 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.