United States v. Moreno’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.2d 1321 · 1977
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably United States v. Aguilar (1989), United States v. Chavez-Palacios (1994)
46 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (§ 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on McBoyle v. United States · 62 Cases More or Less Each Containing Six Jars of Jam v. United States · Dalehite v. United States · United States v. Fruit Growers Express Co.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is an ipso facto exemption for those who transport undocumented aliens for employment or as an incident to employment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in furtherance of such violation of law,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A broader interpretation of the transportation section would render the qualification placed there by Congress a nullity. To do this would potentially have tragic consequences for many American citizens who come into daily contact with undocumented aliens and who, with no evil or criminal intent, intermingle with them socially or otherwise. It could only exacerbate the plight of these aliens and, without adding anything significant to solving the problem, create, in effect judicially, a new crime and a new class of criminals.”
3 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.