Blazina v. Bouchard’s Empirical Analysis
286 F.2d 507 · 1961
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably Fatin v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1993), ACOSTA (1985)
39 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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
Relies on United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Jay v. Boyd · Isserman v. Ethics Committee of Essex County Bar Ass'n · United States ex rel. Dolenz v. Shaughnessy
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ (h) The Attorney General is authorized to withhold deportation of any alien within the United States to any country in which in his opinion the alien would be subject to physical persecution and for such period of time as he deems to be necessary for such reason. * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[should] be taken to mean confinement, torture, or death inflicted on account of race, religion, or political viewpoint.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]efore the Attorney General may grant relief under section 243(h) it must be shown to his satisfaction that, if deported, the alien would be subject not only to persecution, but to physical persecution.”
2 later decisions 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.