Jay v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
478 federal appellate · 45 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 780 later decisions (49 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr (2001), Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy (1961)
478 federal appellate · 45 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3651 · 8 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 103 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1225 (§ 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1226 (§ 236 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1254 (§ 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Williams v. People of State of New York · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · In re Oliver · United States Accardi 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 780 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] grant * * * [of an application for suspension of deportation] is manifestly not a matter of right under any circumstances, but rather is in all cases a matter of grace.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Attorney General may, in his discretion, suspend deportation ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As hereinafter prescribed in this section, the Attorney General may, in his discretion, suspend deportation and adjust the status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, in the case of an alien who applies to the Attorney General for suspension of deportation and— “(1) is deportable under any law of the United States except the provisions specified in paragraph (2) of this subsection ; has been physically present in the United States for a continuous period of not less than seven years immediately preceding the date of such application, and proves that during all such period he was and is a person of good moral character; and is a person whose deportation would, in the opinion of the Attorney General, result in extreme hardship to the alien or his spouse, parent, or child, who is a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence; or Sjí * }S }}: “(f) No provision of this section shall be applicable to an alien who (1) entered the United States as a crewman subsequent to June 30, 1964; * * 8 U.S.C. §§ 1254 (a) (1) and (f).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.