Arizona v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
567 U.S. 387 · 2012
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 30 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 293 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Trump v. Hawaii (2018), 138 S. Ct. 1461 - Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn. (2018)
45 federal appellate · 30 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 23 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1546 · 18 U.S.C. § 3561 · 8 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 103 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229 (§ 239 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1304 (§ 264 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1324A (§ 274a of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · United States v. Salerno · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Hines v. Davidowitz · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp.
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 293 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“broad, undoubted power over the subject of immigration and the status of aliens,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain present in the United States,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.