United States v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 437 · 1975
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably United States v. Varkonyi (1981), United States v. Herrera (1978)
20 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (§ 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Bolling v. Sharpe · Bouie v. City of Columbia · United States v. Evans · Lámar v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“willfully or knowingly ... attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, in any place . . . any alien .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“facilitate the continued unlawful presence of the aliens in the United States, which amounts to harboring.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the purposes of this section, employment (including the usual and normal practices incident to employment) shall not be deemed to constitute harboring.”
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.