Fiallo Ex Rel. Rodriguez v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
699 federal appellate · 179 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,680 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Plyler v. Doe (1982), Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado (1984)
699 federal appellate · 179 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1151 (§ 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1153 (§ 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1154 (§ 204 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))
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Stanley v. Illinois · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Wisconsin v. Yoder
Cited together with Mathews v. Diaz · Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei · Kleindienst v. Mandel · Landon v. Plasencia · Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. v. Stranahan
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 1,680 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'over no conceivable subject is the legislative power of Congress more complete than it is over' the admission of aliens.”
68 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“long recognized the power to expel or exclude aliens as a fundamental sovereign attribute exercised by the Government's political departments largely immune from judicial control.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage“Congress regularly makes rules that would be unacceptable if applied to citizens.”
22 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.