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← 27 FSUPP2D 262 - Ranglin v. Reno

Ranglin v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
April 2000
most recently cited

6 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Crowell v. Benson · Hughes Aircraft Company v. United States · Goncalves v. Reno

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

  1. “[w]here Congress includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another section of the same Act, it is generally presumed that Congress acts intentionally and purposely in the disparate inclusion or exclusion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[f]ew principles of statutory construction are more compelling than the proposition that Congress does not intend sub silentio to enact statutory language that it has earlier discarded in favor of other language.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[the] same reasoning is applicable here.”
    1 later decision 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.