United States v. Leon-Leon’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.3d 1428 · 1994
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Shobna Chandar Lata v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2000), Walters v. Reno (1998)
44 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1326 (§ 276 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Arizona v. Fulminante · McKaskle v. Wiggins · Waller v. Georgia · Vasquez v. Hillery · Alexander v. United States
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n spite of any violation of the alien's due process rights, the deportation order may still be used to prove an element of [ 8 U.S.C. § 1326 ] if the alien fails to show prejudice resulting from the violation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an alien must be permitted to collaterally challenge a deportation order ... to be used as an element of a criminal offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“although the IJ abused his discretion by failing to have important portions of the hearing translated, Leon-Leon failed to refute the fact that he is clearly deportable”); Proa-Tovar, 975 F.2d at 595 (”
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.