Nielsen v. Preap’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Murillo (1998), Delek US Holdings, Inc. v. United States (2022)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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. § 3262 · 6 U.S.C. § 202 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 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. § 1226 (§ 236 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. § 1231 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Crowell v. Benson · Kansas v. Hendricks · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · County of Riverside v. McLaughlin
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our decision today on the meaning of [ § 1226(c) ] does not foreclose as-applied challenges-that is, constitutional challenges to applications of the statute as we have now read it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vargas v. Beth“comes into play only when, after the application of ordinary textual analysis, the statute is found to be susceptible of more than one construction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“grant[ed] injunctive relief for a class of aliens that includes some who have not yet faced -- but merely 'will face' -- mandatory detention”
1 later decision 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.