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602 F.3d 481 · 2010

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
June 2023
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 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. § 1229B (§ 240a 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 Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Doherty · LOZADA · Twum v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Kucana v. Holder

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Because immigration proceedings are of a civil rather than criminal nature, aliens in removal proceedings 'enjoy[ ] no specific right to counsel' under the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution.”
    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.