Miguel Noel Fierro v. Janet Reno, Attorney General, Miguel Noel Fierro v. Janet Reno, Attorney General’s Empirical Analysis
217 F.3d 1 · 2000
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 20 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Ernest Iskandar Nehme v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2001), Bagot v. Ashcroft (2005)
32 federal appellate · 20 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 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Burrus · De Sylva v. Ballentine · Examining Bd. of Engineers, Architects and Surveyors v. Flores De Otero · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Pangilinan
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ubject to possible limitation, we think that the requirement of `legal custody' in section 1432 should be taken presumptively to mean legal custody under the law of the state in question.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ N ] unc pro tunc authority may only be used to correct inadvertent or clerical errors, and not to remedy `a defect in a judgment, order or decree which expressed exactly the intention of the [agency] at the time when it was made.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the state court to create loopholes in the immigrations laws,”
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.