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604 F. App'x 72 - Boyron v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 2025
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Wangchuck v. Department of Homeland Security · Morgan v. Gonzales · Garcia-Villeda v. Mukasey · SIBRUN · RAJAH

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

  1. “legally committed to, or placed under the custody of, an agency or department of a State, or an individual or entity appointed by a State or juvenile court located in the United States.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “reunification with 1 or both of the immigrant's parents is not viable due to abuse, neglect, abandonment, or a similar basis found under State law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “demonstrate that reunification with his mother was not viable-indeed, [his] mother continued to live with him at his cousin's house in Connecticut”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.