Mielewczyk v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.3d 992 · 2009
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably United States v. Aguila-Montes De Oca (2011), Ramirez-Villalpando v. Holder (2010)
12 federal appellate ·
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 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Taylor v. United States · Tokatly v. Ashcroft · Andia v. Ashcroft · Ruiz-Vidal v. Gonzales · Minh Duc Luu-Le v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a violation [by an alien] of (or a conspiracy or attempt to violate) any law or regulation ... relating to a controlled substance.' " 15 It did not by its terms indicate that the scope of the phrase "violation ... relating to a controlled substance offense”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]very person who transports, imports into this state, sells, furnishes, administers, or gives away, or offers to transport, import into this state, sell, furnish, administer, or give away, or attempts to import into this state or transport any controlled substance ... shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of two, three, or four years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“every person who transports [for sale], imports into this state, sells, furnishes, administers, or gives away, or offers to transport, import into this state, sell, furnish, administer, or give away, or attempts to import into this state or transport [various listed controlled substances] ... shall be punished by imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marinelarena v. Barr
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.