Lennon v. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
527 F.2d 187 · 1975
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably Janet Reno, Attorney General v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee et al. (1999), MARIN (1978)
63 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Morissette v. United States · Shelton v. Tucker · United States v. Freed · Aptheker v. Secretary of State
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person shall not be in possession of a drug unless . . . authorized . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“quite innocent under our system of criminal justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“specific rules of statutory interpretation have evolved in the immigration context . . . (and) '(i)t is settled doctrine that deportation statutes must be construed in favor of the alien.' " The Marino court held that a statute providing for deportation for aliens with a "final conviction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.