Boutilier v. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
142 federal appellate · 34 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 398 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal (1982), Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972)
142 federal appellate · 34 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedBoutilier v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 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 Jordan v. De George · Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath · Kent v. Dulles · Watkins v. United States · Fong Haw Tan v. Phelan
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 398 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been held that the Congress has plenary power to make rules for the admission of aliens and to exclude those who possess those characteristics which Congress has forbidden.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so vague and indefinite as really to be no rule or standard at all.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“afflicted with psychopathic personality.”
4 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.