BAIRES’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2025
2 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1432 (§ 321 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Saxbe v. Bustos · Bagot v. Ashcroft · Jordon v. Attorney General of the United States · Bustamante-Barrera v. Gonzales · Knowles v. Mirzayance
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree with the respondent that she has met the requirements of section 321(a) of the Act if she came into her father's legal custody prior to reaching her 18th birthday....”); 8 Gordon, Mailman, and YaleLoehr, supra, § 98.03(3)(e) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.