PICHARDO’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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Applies 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))
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Lopez-Mendoza · Woodby v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Pino v. Landon · Goldeshtein 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e essentially would be inviting the parties to present any and all evidence bearing on an alien’s conduct leading to the conviction, including possibly the arresting officer's testimony or even the testimony of eyewitnesses who may have been at the scene of the crime. Such an endeavor is inconsistent both with the streamlined adjudication that a deportation hearing is intended to provide and with the settled proposition that an Immigration Judge cannot adjudicate guilt or innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]bsent any reference in the Certificate of Disposition to the subdivision under which the respondent was convicted ... we do not find that the court document that was offered into the record establishes the respondent's deportability for a firearms violation....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adefemi v. Ashcroft“where the identity of the weapon that he was convicted of possessing and the subdivision of the law under which he was convicted [could not] be ascertained from the conviction document that was offered into evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adefemi 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.