23 F. Supp. 2d 521 - Breyer v. Meissner’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1401 (§ 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1409 (§ 309 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1452 (§ 341 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1481 (§ 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1503 (§ 360 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Allen v. Wright · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Montana 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall not confer citizenship on, or affect the validity of any denaturalization, deportation, or exclusion action against, any person who . . . was excluded from, or who would not have been eligible for admission to, the United States under the Displaced Persons Act of 1948 . . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he people affected by INTCA are not citizens who are expatriated by 101(c)(2); they are instead aliens who are denied naturalization by S 101(c)(2), and the denial of naturalization burdens no fundamental right of citizenship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“while expressly prohibit[ing] the conferral of citizenship to anyone who assisted in any form of Nazi persecution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.