Benitez v. Wallis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate ·

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

1. “[W]e nowhere deny the right of Congress to remove aliens, to subject them to supervision with conditions when released from detention, or to incarcerate them where appropriate for violations of those conditions. (citation omitted) ... Rather, the issue we address is whether aliens that the government finds itself unable to remove are to be condemned to an indefinite term of imprisonment within the United States. Nor do the cases before us require us to consider the political branches’ authority to control entry into the United States. Hence we leave no unprotected spot in the Nation’s armor, (citation omitted). Neither do we consider terrorism or other special circumstances where special arguments might be made for forms of preventive detention and for heightened deference to the judgements of the political branches with respect to matters of national security.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Clark Field Office Director Seattle Immigration and Customs Enforcement et al. v. Martinez · 411 F. Supp. 2d 658 - Tran v. Gonzales

2. “[u]nder no circumstance during the removal period shall the Attorney General release an alien who has been found inadmissible....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sierra v. Romaine · Benitez v. Wallis

3. “may be detained beyond the removal period,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Clark Field Office Director Seattle Immigration and Customs Enforcement et al. v. Martinez · 291 F. Supp. 2d 1318 - Ulysse v. Department of Homeland Security