Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Errico Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
294 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 434 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias (1992), Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987)
294 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
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
reviewedErrico v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1181 (§ 211 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 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))
Relies on Fong Haw Tan v. Phelan · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Delgadillo v. Carmichael · Barber v. Gonzales
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 434 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entry into the United States [procured] by fraud or misrepresentation”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . waives any deportation charge that results directly from the misrepresentation regardless of the section of the statute under which the charge was brought, provided that the alien was otherwise admissible at the time of entry.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in adopting this legislation was to unite families comprised, in part, of American citizens or lawful permanent residents, thereby achieving a”
6 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.