United States of v. Alejandro Pacheco-Medina’s Empirical Analysis
212 F.3d 1162 · 2000
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably United States v. Carranza (2002), Carlos Castro-Cortez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service Jose Luis Araujo (2001)
70 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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
Relies on California v. Hodari D. · Rosenberg v. Fleuti · United States v. Aguilar · Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. v. CF&I Fabricators of Utah, Inc. · Poe 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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has still not made an entry despite having crossed the border with the intention of evading inspection, because he lacks the freedom to go at large and mix with the population.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deprived of [his] liberty and prevented from going at large within the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“never left the agent's sight except for a split second as he rounded a corner”
2 later decisions 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.