Folorunso Adeyinka Afolayan Grace Afolayans v. Immigration and Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis

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33 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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

1. “[t]he Due Process Clause requires only that an alien receive notice and a fair hearing where the INS must prove by clear, unequivocal, and convincing evidence that the alien is subject to deportation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Claudia Escudero-Corona v. Immigration and Naturalization Service Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States of America

2. “compels us to conclude that Congress clearly intended a retroactive application of the stop-time measure . . . Landgraf requires no further examination of this issue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Alicia Wai Ling Tang v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

3. “When reviewing an agency decision, [the court] accord[s] substantial deference to the agency's interpretation of the statutes and regulations it administers.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davids As Trustee Of Harold D. v. USDA