United States v. Blanco’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 940 · 1985
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2018
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 8 U.S.C. § 1323 (§ 273 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Santoni v. United States · United States v. Bailey · Roberts v. Louisiana · United States v. Patrick · United States v. Shapiro
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [they were] under an immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury, (2) [they] had a well-grounded fear that the threat would be carried out, and (3) [they] had no reasonable opportunity to escape.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t shall be unlawful for any person ... to bring to the United States from any place outside thereof (other them from foreign contiguous territory) any alien who does not have an unexpired visa____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“recklessly or negligently placed himself in a situation in which it was probable that he would be subject to duress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyden v. Howerton
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.