Mulcahey v. Catalanotte’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
85 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably Moosa v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1999), Alfonso Aragon-Ayon v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Juan Tafolla Ramirez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2000)
85 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCatalanotte v. Butterfield (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Harisiades v. Shaughnessy · Galvan v. Press · Ng Fung Ho v. White · Marcello v. Bonds · Mahler v. Eby
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“who at any time has been convicted of a violation of * * * any law or regulation relating to the illicit possession of or traffic in narcotic drugs or marihuana.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“notwithstanding ... that the facts ... occurred prior to the date of Enactment of this Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“indisputable ... that Congress was legislating retrospectively”
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.