Reno v. Flores’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
887 federal appellate · 301 district · 655 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,138 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Booker (2004), Troxel v. Granville (2000)
887 federal appellate · 301 district · 655 state decisions — followed in 40 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
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Santosky v. Kramer · Gault
Cited together with United States v. Salerno · Washington v. Glucksberg · Collins v. City of Harker Heights · Mathews v. Eldridge · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 3,138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law in deportation proceedings.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'For reasons long recognized as valid, the responsibility for regulating the relationship between the United States and our alien visitors has been committed to the political branches of the Federal Government.'”
26 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.