Minh Duc Luu-Le v. Immigration and Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

47 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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

1. “a violation of (or a conspiracy or attempt to violate) any law or regulation of a State, the United States, or a foreign country relating to a controlled substance ....”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Peters v. Ashcroft · Bermudez v. Holder

2. “It is unlawful for any person to use, or to possess with intent to use, drug paraphernalia to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce into the human body a drug in violation of this chapter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bermudez v. Holder

3. “grant a degree of deference to the interpretation of an administrative agency charged with implementing the statute or provision in question when the agency's interpretation is a permissible construction of the statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Community Bank of Arizona v. G.V.M. Trust