Sovich v. Esperdy’s Empirical Analysis
319 F.2d 21 · 1963
Citation profile
40 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Djordje Kovac v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, John P. Boyd, District Director, Seattle, Washington (1969), Kapcia v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1991)
40 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
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Harisiades v. Shaughnessy · Carlson v. Landon · Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The memory of Hitler's atrocities and of the legal system which he corrupted to serve his purposes, however, are still too fresh for us to suppose that physical persecution may not bear the nihil obstat of a 'recognized juridical system.' " Id. at 28, 29.). There has been no indication that any punishment that Khalaf might receive would be excessive or cruel, or that the government of Jordan is a "cruel dictatorship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It would be naive to suppose ... that punishment for illegal departure ... is not politically motivated, or does not constitute punishment because of ... political opinion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“standards employed by the Attorney General in exercising his discretion under § 243(h) are subject to judicial review.”
2 later decisions 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.