Maslenjak v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Sessions v. Dimaya (2018), United States v. Peppers (2018)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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. § 1015 · 18 U.S.C. § 1425 · 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 18 U.S.C. § 930 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1421 (§ 310 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1423 (§ 312 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1427 (§ 316 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · Costello v. United States · West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey · Kungys v. United States · Schneiderman 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We begin, as usual, with the statutory text.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hoever knowingly procures or attempts to procure, contrary to law, the naturalization of any person”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“establish that the investigation 'would predictably have disclosed' some legal disqualification.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.