Latter-Singh v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. “[O]ne test 'to determine if a crime involves moral turpitude is whether the act is accompanied by a vicious motive or a corrupt mind.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ryan v. Whitaker · United States v. Eguilos

2. “[A] crime involving moral turpitude is generally a crime that (1) is vile, base, or depraved and (2) violates accepted moral standards.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Vasquez-Valle v. Sessions · Romo v. Barr

3. “(1) willfully threatening to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person; (2) specific intent that the statement be taken as a threat; (3) the threat was "on its face and under the circumstances so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened, a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat”; (4) the threat “caused the victim to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family’s safety”; and (5) -the "victim’s fear was reasonable under the circumstances.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Coquico v. Lynch